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Gastroesophageal Reflux

"Gastroesophageal Reflux" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Retrograde flow of gastric juice (GASTRIC ACID) and/or duodenal contents (BILE ACIDS; PANCREATIC JUICE) into the distal ESOPHAGUS, commonly due to incompetence of the LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gastroesophageal Reflux" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Gastroesophageal Reflux" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 420 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 26 publications in 2011
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.