Concurrent Conditions in Patients with Chronic Constipation: A Population-Based Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Arora, Gaurav ^a   Mannalithara, Ajitha ^b   Mithal, Alka ^c   Triadafilopoulos, George ^b   Singh, Gurkirpal ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Institute of Clinical Outcomes Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC CONSTIPATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEMORRHOID; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; FECAL IMPACTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHOIDS; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84867436110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042910     Document Type: Article

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