The association between body mass index and gastroesophageal reflux disease in the World Trade Center Health Program General Responder Cohort.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

There is increasing concern about the obesity epidemic in the United States. Obesity is a potential risk factor for a number of chronic diseases, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). This analysis examined whether body mass index (BMI) was associated with physician-diagnosed GERD in World Trade Center (WTC) general responders.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Am. J. Ind. Med.

Title: American journal of industrial medicine

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN (Electronic): 1097-0274

ISSN (Print): 0271-3586

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2016

Volume: 59

Issue: 9

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

[2 ] Department of Environmental Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.

[3 ] Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York.

[4 ] Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

[5 ] Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, Piscataway, New Jersey.

Article

DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22637

PubMed ID: 27582478

SO-VID: 25468f50-22d6-4345-884f-b68898bf22a8

History

Keywords: BMI,9/11,World Trade Center,GERD

Data availability:

Keywords: BMI, 9/11, World Trade Center, GERD

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 8

See all cited by