Waist belt and central obesity cause partial hiatus hernia and short-segment acid reflux in asymptomatic volunteers

Gut

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1053-1060

  Lee, Yeong Yeh ^a,b   Wirz, Angela A ^a   Whiting, James G H ^c   Robertson, Elaine V ^a   Smith, Donald ^d   Weir, Alexander ^d   Kelman, Andrew W ^a   Derakhshan, Mohammad H ^a   McColl, Kenneth E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE; OBESITY; PH MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SEGMENT ACID REFLUX; STOMACH PH; WAIST BELT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOTHING; ESOPHAGEAL PH MONITORING; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84902262895     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2013-305803     Document Type: Article

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