Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 25th, 2006
According to recent research from Japan, "Nocturnal gastric acid breakthrough (NAB) is given attention as one of the factors that cause refractory reflux esophagitis. However, its clinical states and mechanisms are not yet clearly understood."
"We studied whether there will be a NAB outbreak or not among healthy Japanese male volunteers upon administration of omeprazole, as well as what kind of factors will be involved in case of an outbreak. Twenty-one volunteers were selected as subjects for this research.
"Subjects were checked for symptoms as...
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