Peptic ulcers after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami: Possible existence of psychosocial stress ulcers in humans

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 483-490

  Kanno, Takeshi ^a   Iijima, Kastunori ^a   Abe, Yasuhiko ^a   Koike, Tomoyuki ^a   Shimada, Norihiro ^b   Hoshi, Tatsuya ^c   Sano, Nozomu ^d   Ohyauchi, Motoki ^e   Ito, Hirotaka ^e   Atsumi, Tomoaki ^f   Konishi, Hidetomo ^f   Asonuma, Sho ^g   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^c Kesennuma City Hospital   (Japan)

^d Shiogama City Hospital   (Japan)

^e Osaki Citizen Hospital   (Japan)

^f Kurihara Central Hospital   (Japan)

^g South Miyagi Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Great earthquake; H. pylori; NSAID; Peptic ulcer; Psychosocial stress

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DUODENUM ULCER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER; STRESS ULCER; TSUNAMI; DISASTER; DRUG UTILIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DISASTERS; DRUG UTILIZATION; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84880891487     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-012-0681-1     Document Type: Article

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