GI epidemiology : diseases and clinical methodology

Content: Contributors, viii     Foreword, xiv     Preface, xv     About the companion website, xvi     Part 1: Gastrointestinal Diseases and Disorders: The Public Health Perspective     1 The Burden of Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Around the World, 3  Hannah P. Kim, Seth D. Crockett, & Nicholas J. Shaheen     Part 2: How to Critically Read the Gastrointestinal Epidemiology Literature     Introduction and Overview, 17  Joe West     2 How to Read a Cohort Study, 18  Laila J. Tata     3 How to Read a Case-Control Study, 30  Joe West, Laila J. Tata, & Timothy R. Card     4 How to Read a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial, 39  Matthew J. Grainge     5 How to Read a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 48  Alexander C. Ford & Paul Moayyedi     6 How to Decide if Any of This Matters, 58  Kate M. Fleming & Timothy R. Card     Part 3: How to Do Clinical Research in GI     7 How to Develop and Validate a GI Questionnaire, 67  Enrique Rey & G. Richard Locke III     8 How to Do Population-Based Studies and Survey Research, 75  Sanjiv Mahadeva & Hematram Yadav     9 How to Find and Apply Large Databases for Epidemiologic Research, 83  Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Joe West, Jessica A. Davila, Timothy R. Card, & Hashem B. El-Serag     10 How to Do Genetic and Molecular Epidemiologic Research, 98  Yuri A. Saito     11 Diagnostic Studies, 106  Paul Moayyedi     12 Randomized Controlled Trials, 113  Paul Moayyedi & Richard H. Hunt     Part 4: Epidemiology of Major GI Diseases     13 Epidemiology of GERD, Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Cancer, 121  David Armstrong     14 Epidemiology of Helicobacter Pylori Infection, Peptic Ulcer Disease and  Gastric Cancer, 135  Grigorios I. Leontiadis & Olof Nyr'en    15 Epidemiology of Dyspepsia, 158  Alexander C. Ford & Nicholas J. Talley     16 Epidemiology of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding, 172  Colin J. Crooks, Joseph Sung, & Timothy R. Card     17 Epidemiology of Celiac Disease, 185  Alberto Rubio-Tapia, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, & Joseph A. Murray     18 Measuring Utilization of Endoscopy in Clinical Practice, 196  Frances Tse & Alan Barkun     19 Epidemiology of Colorectal Carcinoma, 213  Harminder Singh, Joselito M. Montalban, & Salaheddin Mahmud     20 Epidemiology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 222  Rok Seon Choung & Yuri A. Saito     21 Epidemiology of Constipation, 235  Brian E. Lacy & John M. Levenick     22 Epidemiology of Diverticular Disease, 249  Robin Spiller & David Humes     23 Epidemiology of Infectious Diarrhea, 262  Christina M. Surawicz & Crenguta Stepan     24 Epidemiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 273  Edward V. Loftus, Jr.     25 Epidemiology of Fecal Incontinence, 285  Adil E. Bharucha     26 Epidemiology of Gallstones and Biliary Tract Cancers, 296  Guy D. Eslick & Eldon A. Shaffer     27 Epidemiology of Pancreatitis, 306  Dhiraj Yadav, Santhi Swaroop Vege, & Suresh T. Chari     28 Epidemiology of Pancreatic Cancer, 313  Aravind Sugumar & Santhi Swaroop Vege     29 Epidemiology of Hepatitis B and C in the United States, 322  Sumeet K. Asrani & W. Ray Kim     30 Epidemiology of Alcoholic Liver Disease, 332  Sumeet K. Asrani & William Sanchez     31 Epidemiology of Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma, 344  Joe West & Guruprasad P. Aithal     32 Epidemiology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), 357  Guruprasad P. Aithal, Kshaunish Das, & Abhijit Chowdhury     33 Epidemiology of Common Tropical GI Diseases, 373  Magnus Halland, Rodney Givney, & Anne Duggan     34 Nutritional Epidemiology and GI Cancers, 383  Linda E. Kelemen & Ilona Csizmadi     35 The Epidemiology of Obesity Among Adults, 394  Cynthia L. Ogden, Brian K. Kit, Tala H.I. Fakhouri, Margaret D. Carroll, & Katherine M. Flegal     Index 405