Smoking habits in patients with ulcerative colitis: Evaluation of retrospective questionnaires
✍ Scribed by Dr. Curt Tysk; Gunnar Järnerot
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 316 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1078-0998
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✦ Synopsis
We evaluated retrospective smoking data reported by 221 patients with ulcerative colitis in 1984 and repeated in an identical questionnaire in 1989. Reported years of smoking initiation or smoking cessation agreed to a high extent; the difference between the two question-Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr.
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