Role of Meteorological Factors in Duodenal Ulcer Seasonality

psychosocial factors in patients with duodenal ulcer

in this cross-sectional study, psychosocial factors were assessed in patients with duodenal ulcer (du) (n=20) and healthy subjects (n=20) matched for sex, age, and education. these factors were assessed during the active phase of du and again 3 months following the completion of medical treatment. the psychosocial factors included psychological distress symptoms, stressful life events, coping s...

Dietary factors associated with duodenal ulcer.

Duodenal ulcer in childhood. A study of predisposing factors.

Duodenal ulcer has been regarded in the past as a rare disease in children, and in the period 19301958 only 3 cases were diagnosed at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, in children over the age of 1 year. The diagnosis of childhood duodenal ulcer is now being made more frequently (Fig.), and while there is a more general awareness of the problem, a real increase in incidence, as s...

The possibility of dietary protective factors in duodenal ulcer.

Rats fed on a supplement of raw cabbage, brinjal, dhal or powdered milk given in addition to a staple rice or laboratory stock diet show a high degree of protection against experimental ulceration following pyloric ligation. Wheat bran and ragi (a millet) conferred some protection, whereas rice bran and maize conferred no protection. The protection conferred by raw cabbage was destroyed by cook...

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...