Overweight is a risk factor for both erosive and non-erosive reflux disease

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 940-945

  Savarino, Edoardo ^a   Zentilin, Patrizia ^a   Marabotto, Elisa ^a   Bonfanti, Daria ^a   Inferrera, Simona ^a   Assandri, Lorenzo ^a   Sammito, Giorgio ^a   Gemignani, Lorenzo ^a   Furnari, Manuele ^a   Dulbecco, Pietro ^a   Savarino, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BMI; Impedance pH metry; MII pH; Non acid reflux; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS PH; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; ESOPHAGITIS, PEPTIC; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HEARTBURN; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055070842     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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