Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

期刊简介：The enormous health and economic burden of gastrointestinal disease worldwide warrants a sharp focus on the etiology, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and development of new therapies. By the end of the last century we had seen enormous advances, both in technologies to visualize disease and in curative therapies in areas such as gastric ulcer, with the advent first of the H2-antagonists and then the proton pump inhibitors - clear examples of how advances in medicine can massively benefit the patient. Nevertheless, specialists face ongoing challenges from a wide array of diseases of diverse etiology.

【译文】全球范围内胃肠道疾病的巨大健康和经济负担需要我们密切关注其病因、流行病学、预防、诊断、治疗以及新疗法的开发。到上个世纪末，我们在疾病可视化和治疗领域取得了巨大进步，例如胃溃疡的治疗，首先是H2受体拮抗剂的出现，然后是质子泵抑制剂的出现——这是医学进步如何极大地造福患者的明显例子。然而，专家们仍然面临着来自各种病因不同的疾病的持续挑战。