Rheumatic diseases in blacks, whites and Asians--some comments.
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Rheumatic diseases in blacks, whites and Asians--some comments.
The aetiology of rheumatic diseases is unknown but in many of them it appears that there are one or more trigger factors which induce inflammatory rheumatic disease against the genetic background of the patient. Both trigger factors and genetic background may differ in different parts of the world. Ethnic differences can therefore modulate rheumatic diseases in many ways which will appear as di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.59.696.648