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Had our study been, as Young et al. imply, a data trawling exercise using hundreds of variables to look for a 'thread', then doubts about its validity might be justified. However, their account of our work bears little relationship to the methods, results or conclusions we report. For example, Young et al. claim that we used 396 tests to address our primary hypothesis. In fact, we used two. You...

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Noncardiac Chest Pain in Young Patients: Author's Reply

TO TH E ED ITO R: The prevalence of noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) differs by the type of study performed: hospital-based studies, community-based studies or general practice studies. In the previous two studies, we reported that 38%-41% of NCCP in average aged subjects had gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) diagnosed by endoscopy and 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring, with similar protocol to...

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