TY - CHAP AU - Kotaro Kodama AU - Hideaki Fujisaki AU - Hideo Tonomura AU - Miwa Jindo AU - Misako Watanabe AU - Junichi Nagakawa AU - Noriaki Takeguchi ED - Mauro Bortolotti Y1 - 2012-03-16 PY - 2012 T1 - E3710, Long-Acting PPI as New Approach for the Treatment of Unmet Medical Needs for GERD N2 - Gastroesophageal reflux disease affects many patients. This disease not only lowers their quality of life, but it also threatens some of them with an underhand risk of cancer. Additionally, it becomes an economic burden for the patients and society. The aim of this book on gastroesophageal reflux disease is to provide advice and guidance to gastroenterologists to help them understand and manage some aspects of this proteiform disease. BT - Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/29085 DO - 10.5772/29085 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-11 ER -