Gastric Acidity: Relation to Various Factors Such as Age and Physical Fitness

Gastric Acidity in Normal Individuals

“…For example, Bloomfield and Keefer (9), using an alcohol test meal, and Polland and Bloomfield (5), using histamine, found a definite correlation between acid secretion and age. The former workers also noted an increased incidence of achlorhydria with advancing age.…”

The Gastric Secretion in Exophthalmic Goitre and Myxoedema

“…Bloomfield and Keefer (20), as well as other writers, stress the relationship between age and degree of gastric acidity. An analysis of Table I and Figures 2 and 3 shows that in exophthalmic goitre, at least, this is not definite.…”

Gastric Motility and the Volume of Gastric Secretion in Man

“…The subjects were part of the group used for the previous observations (1). As far as possible organic.…”

“…lesions of the stomach were excluded in every case. The tests were carril out by the method which has previously been described in detail (1,2).…”

“…In a previous paper (1) we discussed the relation of degree of gastric acidity of people without organic disease of the stomach to physical fitness, age, and other factors. It was shown that acidity tends to decrease with advancing years and that people in poor general physical condition, on the whole, have a less acid stomach juice than those who are fit.…”