Physical activity at work and duodenal ulcer risk.

Physical activity at work and duodenal ulcer risk.

To determine whether the social class differences in duodenal ulcer frequency may be explained by differences in physical activity at work, the energy expenditure during work, smoking habits, and social class were compared in 76 recently diagnosed duodenal ulcer patients and in age and sex matched community controls. As anticipated, the relative risk of duodenal ulcer showed significant associa...

Work-Related physical activity and coronary diseases

Introduction: Prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in the world. Modernization and reduction of physical activity in present century and also controversial results about relationship between work-related physical activity and CVD, lead to investigate the relationship between work-related physical activity and CVD. Methods: This cross-sectional study is based on data from f...

Age at establishment of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric carcinoma, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer risk.

Helicobacter pylori is an important risk factor for gastric cancer, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer, yet most infected persons do not develop disease. We examined two correlates of acquisition age, sibship size and birth order, to evaluate the hypothesis that early life acquisition of H. pylori is a risk factor for the development of these illnesses. In earlier nested case-control studies of ...

Perforated Duodenal Ulcer in High Risk Patients

Duodenal Ulcer

hardly possible, but all this has been changed by the aggression of surgery in the field of the physician; happily changed, for though postmortem records of duodenal ulcers were common enough it was not until 1883 that Chvostec for the first time made a diagnosis verified at autopsy. Cordivilla of Bologna inaugurated the surgery of chronic duodenal ulcer in 1893 when he successfully operated on...