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Appendix
Results: Distribution of research activity in the field of digestive health
Table 5. MEDLINE database search results showing number of digestive disorder related
academic journal publications by research topic and disorder
Hits from 2000, in
academic journals
Research topic
Aetiology
Chemically induced
Complications
Congenital
Diagnosis/Diagnostic imaging
Diet therapy
Drug therapy
Economics
Embryology
Enzymology
Epidemiology
Ethnology
Genetics
Health care quality, access, and evaluation
History
Immunology
Information science
Metabolism
Microbiology
Mortality
Nursing
Parasitology
Pathology/Physiopathology
Prevention and control
Psychology
Surgery
Therapy/Radiotherapy/Rehabilitation
Virology
Digestive disorders
Colon and rectum neoplasms
Gallbladder and biliary tract neoplasms
Liver neoplasms
Oesophageal neoplasms
Pancreatic neoplasms
Stomach neoplasms
Chronic liver diseases
140632
35869
143706
2612
254727
6188
173530
6155
569
18295
100697
5555
124335
43616
1799
53190
21005
121552
35259
65149
2228
10095
336772
52775
12238
196805
124987
40159
Hits from 2000, in
academic journals, with
human study filter
130525
20408
139643
2508
249559
5640
156951
6094
433
14845
97295
5551
115297
43408
1789
44144
20416
98175
31113
64092
2228
6035
300784
39761
12089
194020
120382
38262
153938
19460
148401
19242
121193
35139
56941
60216
142134
113060
34772
54637
59245
123125
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