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Obesity increases the risk of erosive esophagitis but metabolic unhealthiness alone does not: a large-scale cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a known risk factor for erosive esophagitis (EE) and metabolic unhealthiness has been implicated in EE pathogenesis. However, obesity and metabolic unhealthiness are not synonymous and the associations between obesity, metabolic health, and EE are unclear. Therefore, our aim w...

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Autores principales: Baeg, Myong Ki, Ko, Sun-Hye, Ko, Seung Yeon, Jung, Hee Sun, Choi, Myung-Gyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5994083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29884133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-018-0814-y