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Query: UMLS:C0038358 (gastric ulcer)
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Emotional stress is one of the etiologic or anyway predisposing factors involved in a lot of oral pathologies. In fact, relations between stress effects and frequent diseases such as gastric ulcer or ulcerous colitis are today wellknown by everyone. Theories about a relation between this kind of etiology and tumours are only reported by some Authors and are at the level of hypotheses. Mouth is very weak in these situations, owing to its great interest as primary erogenous zone, and for this reason we find frequently oral pathologies in relation with psychosomatic medicine. In this report we tried to give a good help to the study of these diseases and to find an easy classification to use (really it is an hard work to do due to the variety of this numerous illnesses).
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PMID:[Oral pathology of pscyhosomatic origin. Review of the literature]. 220 52

Migrant workers in Central Europe are reported to suffer from an increased prevalence of both duodenal and gastric ulcer as compared to native population. No information is available, however, as far as Italy is concerned. The Authors have thought of interest to report on 7 cases of peptic ulcer disease occurring in migrant workers in Italy. Patients were young adult males from African or Mediterranean developing Countries. In 5 cases the symptoms of their peptic ulcers began after their arrival in Italy. The etiopathogenesis of peptic ulcer was likely to include an interaction among emotional stress, low income, shift and manual work, cigarette smoking and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs self-administration. This last factor has not been reported in literature. The hypothesis that migrant workers in Italy are a peptic ulcer-prone population needs further confirmation for its clinical and social implications.
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PMID:Peptic ulcer in migrants. Seven case-reports from Italy. 224 97

The purpose of this study was to define the frequency of stress preceding or during the course of chronic gastric ulcer (CGU). Stress was measured by the occurrence of 62 selected life events over 2 yr in two groups of CGU patients. One group (A) was studied for events during the 2 yr before their diagnosis (147 patients) and the second group (B) was studied for events occurring after diagnosis (73 patients). The ulcer groups were compared with community controls matched for age, sex, and social grade. Groups A and B did not differ in any significant way in their reported life events, indicating no temporal relationship between stressful life events and CGU. The combined ulcer groups, when compared with controls showed no differences in the number of events experienced or the associated scores for change and distress caused by the events. There was no difference in the order of the three most frequent events. Only the event "minor illness" was more frequent in controls on matched pairs analysis (P less than 0.05). The other 61 events showed no differences. When events were grouped into areas of activity, financial and legal events were reported by 38 patients and 23 controls (P less than 0.05). Significantly, few of these 38 patients were in the 60+ age range (P less than 0.02). Twenty-four patients reported no events, compared to 12 controls (P less than 0.05). Although there is no difference in the life events experienced by CGU patients and their controls, this assessment of stress has not taken account of the significance of the event as perceived by a particular individual, the ulcer patient perhaps reacting differently to stress and the ulcer being one result of this abnormal reaction. Consequently, the role of emotional stress remains open.
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PMID:Chronic gastric ulcer and life events. 738 Jan 96