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The aging stomach
  1. M GUSLANDI
  1. Gastroenterology Unit,
  2. San Raffaele Hospital,
  3. Via Olgettina 60,
  4. 20132 Milan, Italy

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Editor,—After reading Lee and Feldman’s excellent article on the aging stomach (Gut1997;41:425–6), I have realised how many concepts we take for granted even in the absence of clear-cut scientific evidence. In their exhaustive review Lee and Feldman emphasise the paucity of human studies on the state of mucosal defence systems in the elderly. I actually had some data on file which have never been published as I felt that the results were “too obvious” to interest any medical journal. I can only blame myself for not searching …

Dr Lee.

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