Abdominal obesity as a risk factor for the development of erosive esophagitis in subjects with a normal esophago-gastric junction

Gut and Liver

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 276-284

  Koo, Ja Seol ^a   Lee, Sang Woo ^a   Park, Sun Min ^a   Jung, Sung Woo ^a   Yim, Hyung Joon ^a   Park, Jong Jae ^a   Chun, Hoon Jai ^a   Lee, Hong Sik ^a   Choi, Jai Hyun ^a   Kim, Chang Duck ^a   Ryu, Ho Sang ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Causality; Erosive esophagitis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 74249107035     PISSN: 19762283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5009/gnl.2009.3.4.276     Document Type: Article

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