Temporal Trends of Peptic Ulcer Disease in Kashmir, India
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Time trends in epidemiology of peptic ulcer disease in India over two decades.
BACKGROUND Epidemiology of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in India differs from that in the West. It may have undergone a change with recent improvement in hygiene and availability of potent antisecretory and ulcerogenic drugs. We therefore tried to assess time-trends in the frequency of PUD over the past two decades. METHODS Records of patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia and no alarm symptoms...
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عنوان ژورنال: JMS SKIMS
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0972-110X,0972-110X
DOI: 10.33883/jms.v15i2.251