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Article: The peptic ulcer: facts and fantasies.
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- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1989
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The Peptic Ulcer Facts and Fantasies
Sometimes regarded as the price of success, often misrepresented as the result of eating exotic and spicy foods, but too frequently misunderstood for their deadly potential, gastric and duodenal ulcers affect a large part of the population. In 1988, more than five million cases were reported.
The following collection of questions and answers represents both scientific facts and suppositions among the medical profession in fathoming the persistent mystery of ulcers of the digestive tract.
Q: Peptic ulcer, gastric ulcer,
duodenal ulcer -- how do they differ? A: Peptic ulcer is the term that covers