Emotion-related gastritis
Goldberg, S.J.; Smith, C.L.; Connell, A.M.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 65(1): 41-45
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9270 PMID: 1274929 Document Number: 103889
The relationship of emotional stress to abnormalities of the gastric mucosa was considered in a review of 788 consecutive upper gastrointestinal endoscopies. Fifty-three precent of patients with gastritis not related to any generally accepted predisposing or precipitating cause had significant emotional problems documented on their clinical records, while only 10% of the comparable group of duodenal ulcer patients and 25% of a similar group of medical in-patients had significant emotional problems documented. Since this difference was statistically significant (P less than 0.01 and P less than 0.05, respectively), the data suggest that emotional stress may play a contributing role in the production of gastric mucosal abnormaltieis.