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The Second Canadian Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Consensus: Moving Forward to New Concepts

Abstract

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a disease with serious consequences that may result in significant impairment in quality of life and disease morbidity. Across all grades of severity of symptoms and severity of underlying esophageal disease, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) provide therapeutic gains over prokinetics (PKs) or H2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs). The potential cost effectiveness of using medications with higher acquisition …

Authors

Thomson A; Chiba N; Armstrong D; Tougas G; Hunt R

Journal

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 551–556

Publisher

Hindawi

Publication Date

1998

DOI

10.1155/1998/925346

ISSN

2291-2789