A cross-sectional study on the risk factors for erosive esophagitis in young adults

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1293-1299

  Chiba, Hideyuki ^a   Gunji, Toshiaki ^a   Sato, Hajime ^b   Iijima, Kimiko ^a   Fujibayashi, Kazutoshi ^a   Okumura, Mitsue ^a   Sasabe, Noriko ^a   Matsuhashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Nakajima, Atsushi ^c  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Medical Center Tokyo   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erosive esophagitis; Gastroesophageal reflux disease; Hiatal hernia; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GENDER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863094902     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7241     Document Type: Article

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