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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:29-33
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Reprints and Reflections

Commentary: Peptic ulcer and its discontents

Susan Levenstein

Via del Tempio 1A, 00186 Rome, Italy. E-mail: slevenstein@compuserve.com

‘While stress and diet can irritate an ulcer, they do not cause it. Ulcers are caused by the bacterium H. pylori.' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1

‘Thus the dialectics of Hegel was placed upon its head; or rather, turned off its head, on which it was standing, and placed upon its feet.' Friedrich Engels2

Secular Trends in Peptic Ulcer: Whodunit?

Pushing forward to the end of an Agatha Christie novel after you've guessed the murderer is a peculiar reading experience. There is something similar in reading Susser and Stein's ‘Civilisation and Peptic Ulcer'3 with our present awareness that an infectious agent plays a role in this disease. The reader is constantly looking out for whether and how Helicobacter pylori (HP) may be the key to the temporal trends in ulcer mortality that seemed mysterious when they were laid out 40 years ago—the appearance of gastric and then duodenal ulcers on the scene beginning in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Helicobacter Pylori Breaks In

Stress and Company: the Usual Suspects

Murder on the Orient Express

Host Factors in the Mix

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