The Rise of Acid Reflux in Asia
GERD is the most common gastrointestinal disease in the world affecting over 10-20% of the adult population. GERD is often perceived as a Western disease and very little literature available about this disease in the Asian population. With growing ob
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Prateek Sharma Shobna Bhatia Khean Lee Goh Editors
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The Rise of Acid Reflux in Asia
Prateek Sharma • Shobna Bhatia Khean Lee Goh Editors
The Rise of Acid Reflux in Asia
Editors Prateek Sharma University of Kansas School of Medicine, VA Medical Center Kansas City, MO, USA
Shobna Bhatia Gastroenterology KEM Hospital Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Khean Lee Goh University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Preface
Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a very common occurrence in the adult Western population, were once considered uncommon in the Asian continent. However, with the “Westernization” of society in the east, GERD is now a common disorder in Asia and accounts for a large proportion of visits to the general practitioner and gastroenterologist. How do we define GERD in Asia? How common is it? Why is GERD rising in Asia? What are the complications of GERD? And finally, how do we manage GERD in the Asian population? These are all questions that are becoming increasingly important given the changing epidemiology of GERD in this part of the globe. To answer some of these questions, we, the editors, have been fortunate to assemble the leading expert gastroenterologists from Asia to review the latest literature and provide their expertise on the approach to GERD in Asia. We would like to thank the experts for uniformly providing succinct and state-ofthe-art chapters, the publishers for believing i
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