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SUBMITTER: Alkebsi L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5742377 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alkebsi Lobna L Alkebsi Lobna L Ideno Yuki Y Lee Jung-Su JS Suzuki Shosuke S Nakajima-Shimada Junko J Ohnishi Hiroshi H Sato Yasunori Y Hayashi Kunihiko K
Journal of epidemiology 20171028 1
<h4>Background</h4>Although several studies have shown that blood type O is associated with increased risk of peptic ulcer, few studies have investigated these associations in Japan. We sought to investigate the association between the ABO blood group and risk of gastroduodenal ulcers (GDU) using combined analysis of both retrospective and prospective data from a large cohort study of Japanese women, the Japan Nurses' Health Study (JNHS; n = 15,019).<h4>Methods</h4>The impact of the ABO blood gr ...[more]