title: Emotion-related gastritis.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D004724:Endoscopy; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005756:Gastritis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders; D013315:Stress, Psychological