Dyspeptic symptoms and endoscopic findings in the community: The loiano-monghidoro study

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-571

  Zagari, Rocco Maurizio ^a,b   Law, Graham Richard ^b   Fuccio, Lorenzo ^a   Pozzato, Paolo ^b   Forman, David ^b   Bazzoli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUODENUM ULCER; DYSPEPSIA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH ULCER; UREA BREATH TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BREATH TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77949262976     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.706     Document Type: Article

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