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Psychosomatic Medicine 15:509-512 (1953)
© 1953 American Psychosomatic Society

Gastric Acidity and Normally Produced Anxiety

MELVIN H. HELLER M.D.1, JACOB LEVINE Ph.D.2, and THEODORE P. SOHLER M.D.3

1 Veterans Administration Hospital, Newington 11, Connecticut. Present affiliations: Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School
2 Veterans Administration Hospital, Newington 11, Connecticut. Present affiliations: Psychological Service, V. A. Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
3 Veterans Administration Hospital, Newington 11, Connecticut. Present affiliations: Yale University Medical School

Ten hospitalized patients were given two routine gastric acid intubations on two successive days. On the second day some anxiety over the need for the second intubation was manifest by each patient. Fractional samples of free and total gastric acid secretion for the two days showed that in each case, acid levels were significantly elevated on the second day. These elevated acid levels were maintained throughout the second day. These elevations were attributed to the anxiety which had been normally induced by the situation. No significant differences in relative elevation of acid levels were found between patients with and without upper gastrointestinal symptoms.

Submitted on July 31, 1952






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