Dietary essential fatty acids and the decline in peptic ulcer disease--a hypothesis.
Dietary essential fatty acids and the decline in peptic ulcer disease--a hypothesis.
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膳食必需脂肪酸和消化性溃疡病的减少——一个假设。
作者:
Hollander,D;Tarnawski,A
The incidence and virulence of peptic ulcer disease have been declining for the past few decades. Hospital admissions due to duodenal or gastric ulcer have been declining in the United States and in England and Wales2 for the past 20 years. In parallel, the number of surgical operations for peptic ulcer disease has also declined, even before the introduction of cimetidine. 3 4 Most importantly, the age-sex-specific death rates due to peptic ulcer disease have also been declining during thepast few decades.. 8 For example, the death rate due to duodenal ulcer disease in men intheir fifth decade declined from 154 per million in 1930 to 24 per million in 1976 in Scotland. 5 Similar figures from England show a decline in death rate from 109 per million in 1930 to 16 per million in 1976.8 In the United States the decline in death rates in the fifth decade of life was from 40 per million in 1921 to seven permillion in 1976.8 A similar decrease in the mortality rate has been recorded in gastric ulcer disease and in peptic ulcer disease in women. 1 258What are the factors which would account for the decreased incidence, severity and mortality of peptic ulcer disease? Many hypotheses have been advanced to account for this phenomenon. 9-1 One factor that has not been considered is the increased consumption of, andinteraction between, dietary essential fatty acids and the natural defence mechanisms of the gastroduodenal mucosa. Evidence is accumulating that a major factor in the intrinsic defence against ulceration is the endogenous elaboration of prostaglandins, mainly of the E group, by the gastroduodenal mucosa. 12 These grostaglandins