Presence of vertebral fractures is highly associated with hiatal hernia and reflux esophagitis in Japanese elderly people

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1451-1455

  Yoshimura, Miho ^a,b   Nagahara, Akihito ^a   Ohtaka, Keiichi ^b   Shimada, Yuji ^a   Asaoka, Daisuke ^a   Kurosawa, Akihiko ^a   Osada, Taro ^a   Kawabe, Masato ^a   Hojo, Mariko ^a   Yoshizawa, Takashi ^a   Watanabe, Sumio ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO TOKYO KOTO GERIATRIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hiatal hernia; Reflux esophagitis; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; BODY MASS; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; OBESITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE FRACTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGITIS, PEPTIC; FEMALE; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 54449099712     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1193     Document Type: Article

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