The Epidemiology of Alimentary Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-4

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2. Epidemiology and Clinical Practice

   Pages 5-9

3. Some Epidemiological Concepts

   Pages 11-15

4. Genetics and the Gut

   Pages 17-20

5. Reflux Oesophagitis

   Pages 21-25

6. Carcinoma of the Oesophagus

   Pages 27-32

7. Peptic Ulcer

   Pages 33-42

8. Chronic Gastritis/Gastric Erosions

   Pages 43-45

9. Functional Dyspepsia

   Pages 47-51

10. Carcinoma of the Stomach

    Pages 53-59

11. Coeliac Disease/Celiac Sprue

    Pages 61-66

12. Lactase Deficiency

    Pages 67-70

13. Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    Pages 71-75

14. Traveller’s Diarrhoea

    Pages 77-79

15. Food Poisoning/Bacterial Infections of the Gut

    Pages 81-83

16. Parasitic Diseases of the Gut

    Pages 85-90

17. Acute Appendicitis

    Pages 91-94

18. Rare and Unusual Syndromes, Polyposis Syndromes and Polyps

    Pages 95-97

19. Benign Colorectal Neoplasms - Adenoma

    Pages 99-103

20. Malignant Colorectal Neoplasm - Carcinoma

    Pages 105-118

In 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.

• AIDS
• Anästhesie-Informations-Management-System
• Gastritis
• clinical epidemiology
• colon
• epidemiological
• epidemiology
• gastroenterology
• health
• hepatitis
• liver
• liver disease
• pancreas
• small intestine
• stomach

• University of Newcastle, Australia

  John M. Duggan

• John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia

  Anne E. Duggan

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