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Obesity and Gastrointestinal Diseases
- Source :
- Gastroenterology Research and Practice, Vol 2013 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2013.
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Abstract
- The prevalence of obesity in the Japanese population has been increasing dramatically in step with the Westernization of lifestyles and food ways. Our study demonstrated significant associations between obesity and a number of gastrointestinal disorders in a large sample population in Japan. We demonstrated that reflux esophagitis and hiatal hernia were strongly related to obesity (BMI > 25) in the Japanese. In particular, obesity with young male was a high risk for these diseases. On the other hand, it has been reported that obesity is also associated with Barrett’s esophagus and colorectal adenoma; however, obesity was not a risk factor for these diseases in our study. The difference of ethnicity of our subjects may partly explain why we found no data to implicate obesity as a risk factor for Barrett’s esophagus. Arterial sclerosis associated with advanced age and hyperglycemia was accompanied by an increased risk of colorectal adenoma.
- Subjects :
- Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16876121 and 1687630X
- Volume :
- 2013
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Gastroenterology Research and Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9a7e6bc0c9fb4a69a902261a4e4114dd
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/760574