Accommodation in a refugee shelter as a risk factor for peptic ulcer bleeding after the Great East Japan Earthquake: a case–control study of 329 patients

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-40

  Kanno, Takeshi ^a   Iijima, Kastunori ^a   Koike, Tomoyuki ^a   Abe, Yasuhiko ^b   Shimada, Norihiro ^c   Hoshi, Tatsuya ^d   Sano, Nozomu ^e   Ohyauchi, Motoki ^f   Ito, Hirotaka ^f   Atsumi, Tomoaki ^g   Konishi, Hidetomo ^g   Asonuma, Sho ^h   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^d Kesennuma City Hospital   (Japan)

^e Shiogama City Hospital   (Japan)

^f Osaki Citizen Hospital   (Japan)

^g Kurihara Central Hospital   (Japan)

^h South Miyagi Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bleeding peptic ulcers; Earthquake; Refugee shelter; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; REFUGEES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84893684780     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-014-0940-4     Document Type: Article

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