1 in 3 New Yorkers has this stomach disease — and probably doesn't know it

Almost one in three New Yorkers is walking around with a very particular stomach disease, and they probably don't even know it.

A coworker of ours who shall remain nameless recently got a little TMI. He told us he'd just been to New York gastroenterologist Dr. Moushumi Sanghavi for chronic heartburn that kept him up at night. She performed an endoscopy — where they send a tiny camera down your throat, eek — and diagnosed him with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)

Then, a week later the biopsy results came back with something else: Our coworker had tested positive for a stomach disease called Helicobactor pylori, H.pylori for short. Dr. Sanghavi tells Mashable that about 30% or more of New Yorkers have it, due to the city's large and dense population that includes a high rate of immigrants — only many have no idea Read more...

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