Duodenal Ulcer-Does it Exist in Australian Aborigines?
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 6 (6) , 545-547
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-5994.1976.tb03991.x
Abstract
Analysis of Ba meal examinations performed at the Darwin Hospital on 742 non-Aboriginal patients showed that 82 (11.5%) had duodenal ulcers. A similar analysis of Ba meal examinations performed on 94 Aboriginal patients at the same hospital did not reveal any duodenal ulcers. Aboriginal patients form 22% of the local population and 18% of the hospital admissions. It is suggested that duodenal ulcer is an uncommon disease in the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory of Australia.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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