Categorization of upper gastrointestinal symptoms is useful in predicting background factors and studying effects and usages of digestive drugs.

BACKGROUND: There have been very few reports assessing the relationship between various upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms or evaluating each individual upper GI symptom separately. METHODS: Based on the answers to Frequency Scale for the Symptoms of GERD from a large-scale population of healthy a...

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Main Authors: Nobutake Yamamichi, Takeshi Shimamoto, Yoshiki Sakaguchi, Yu Takahashi, Shinya Kodashima, Chiemi Nakayama, Chihiro Minatsuki, Satoshi Ono, Satoshi Mochizuki, Rie Matsuda, Itsuko Asada-Hirayama, Keiko Niimi, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, Yosuke Tsuji, Chihiro Takeuchi, Hikaru Kakimoto, Osamu Goto, Toru Mitsushima, Kazuhiko Koike
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3914954?pdf=render