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Oesophageal pH-Metry: Should Meals Be Standardized?

Abstract

To assess the effect of a late-evening, high-fat meal on nocturnal supine gastro-oesophageal reflux, eight healthy volunteers (aged 20 to 38 years) underwent two ambulatory oesophageal pH-metry recordings, the first after a standardized light meal at 1930 h and the second after a high-fat meal including peppermint and chocolate, at 2130 h. Between 2300 and 0700 h, when subjects were supine, the median acid exposure time (percentage recording …

Authors

Castiglione F; Emde C; Armstrong D; Bauerfeind P; Schneider C; Stacher G; Blum AL

Journal

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 350–354

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

January 1992

DOI

10.3109/00365529209000086

ISSN

0036-5521