Functional heartburn has more in common with functional dyspepsia than with non-erosive reflux disease

Gut

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1185-1191

  Savarino, E ^a,d   Pohl, D ^b   Zentilin, P ^a   Dulbecco, P ^a   Sammito, G ^a   Sconfienza, L ^a   Vigneri, S ^c   Camerini, G ^a   Tutuian, R ^b   Savarino, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; ANTACID AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BLOATING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SATIETY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68849105346     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2008.175810     Document Type: Article

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