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Overweight is a risk factor for both erosive and non-erosive reflux disease

Edoardo Savarino, Patrizia Zentilin, Elisa Marabotto, Daria Bonfanti, Simona Inferrera, Lorenzo Assandri, Giorgio Sammito, Lorenzo Gemignani, Manuele Furnari, Pietro Dulbecco,

Digestive and Liver Disease · 2011 · 62 citations · 34 references

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Increasing prevalence of overweight among US adults. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991

Robert J. Kuczmarski · JAMA · 1994 · 2.4K citations

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Endoscopic assessment of oesophagitis: clinical and functional correlates and further validation of the Los Angeles classification

Lars Lundell, John Dent, J R Bennett et al. · Gut · 1999 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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Prevalence and clinical spectrum of gastroesophageal reflux: A population-based study in Olmsted County, Minnesota

G. Richard Locke, N. J. Talley, A. R. Zinsmeister et al. · Gastroenterology · 1997 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Association between Body Mass and Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus and Gastric Cardia

Jesper Lagergren · Annals of Internal Medicine · 1999 · 678 citations

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Esophageal peristaltic dysfunction in peptic esophagitis

Peter J. Kahrilas, W. J. Dodds, Walter J. Hogan et al. · Gastroenterology · 1986 · 667 citations

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