Sex- and age-specific incidence of autoimmune rheumatic diseases in the Chinese population: A Taiwan population-based study

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 381-386

  See, Lai Chu ^a   Kuo, Chang Fu ^a,b   Chou, I Jun ^b   Chiou, Meng Jiun ^a   Yu, Kuang Hui ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases; Sex and age specific incidence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHCET DISEASE; CHILD; CHINESE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYOSITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TAIWAN; VASCULITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTOIMMUNE RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SEX- AND AGE-SPECIFIC INCIDENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889572081     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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