A Study of Reflux Esophagitis in an Apparently Healthy Population
| Autor: | H. Yoshikane, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Yasumasa Niwa, Hidemi Goto, Masaya Shimodaira, Tadashi Kato, Tomiyasu Arisawa, Naoki Ohmiya, Kose Segawa, Eiji Hamajima |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study Heavy smoking business.industry Healthy population Incidence (epidemiology) Population Gastroenterology medicine.disease Gastrointestinal disease Internal medicine medicine Upper gastrointestinal Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Reflux esophagitis business education Esophagitis |
| Zdroj: | Digestive Endoscopy. 5:62-66 |
| ISSN: | 1443-1661 0915-5635 |
| Popis: | To study reflux esophagitis in the general population, we reviewed the records of 64,171 apparently healthy Japanese adults, 48, 706 men and 15,465 women, who had undergone automated multiphasic health testing and services (AMHTS), a comprehensive routine medical health check, that includes double-contrast upper gastrointestinal roentgenograms. All subjects suspected of having gastrointestinal disease underwent a flexible fiberscopy as indicated. Reflux esophagitis was thus confirmed in 101 subjects. The prevalence of refla esophugitis was 0.20% among men and 0.04% among women (men vs. women p |
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