The Epidemiology of Alimentary DiseasesIn offering this book to what we hope will be interested readers, we have several aspirations. We have aspired to present to students and clinicians a rather narrow view of epidemiology concentrating on the causal factors and setting of the more usual gastroenterological problems and giving greater space to conditions of importance for which major knowledge of causation andcourse is available. Part of the rationale is thebelief that modern medicine lays excessive emphasis on therapy with increasingly expensive, and in many cases, dangerous drugs and too little emphasis on the causes and avoidance of disease. We are of the view that traditional views handed st down through generations of clinicians need scrutiny worthy of 21 century medicine whose currency includes topics like nanomoles, megabytes and logistic regression. We hope that clinicians will see that there is often a practical application to the findings of epidemiological exploration and that what passes for canonical knowledge is so often unsubstantiated myth and are fully aware of the reluctance of organized medicine to reject old paradigms in favor of the new, matched by an often uncritical enthusiasm for new therapies. Our researches have increased our belief in the major role of social factors especially diet, both in quantity and quality in many disorders and that clinicians have a responsibility to provide appropriate advice to policy makers as well as patients. |
Contents
Genetics and the Gut | 17 |
Peptic Ulcer | 33 |
Functional Dyspepsia | 47 |
Carcinoma of the Stomach 53 | 52 |
Lactase Deficiency | 67 |
Parasitic Diseases of the Gut 85 | 84 |
Benign Colorectal Neoplasms Adenoma | 99 |
Ulcerative Colitis | 119 |
Crohns Disease | 137 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid activity acute acute pancreatitis alcohol appear associated blood bowel cancer carcinoma cause cell changes characteristic cholesterol chronic chronic pancreatitis cirrhosis clear clinical coeliac disease cohort colitis colon colorectal cancer common compared complications condition consumption controls Crohn’s disease death DEFINITION diabetes diarrhoea diet dietary disorders drug dyspepsia effect epidemiology evidence factors females fibre findings followed frequent function gall stones gastric Gastroenterology gene genetic given Health Hepatitis higher important incidence increased infection inflammatory intake Italy leading less liver liver disease lower major males mortality nature normal obesity occur oesophageal organisms patients polyps population present prevalence problems produce protective rare recent recognised References reflux relative reported rising risk risk factors role seen showed significant smoking societies suggested symptoms syndrome ulcer vegetable virus western women