Caroline Linninge, Bodil Roth, Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson, Göran Molin, Ervin Toth, Bodil Ohlsson
Caroline Linninge, Göran Molin, Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition, Lund University, Lund S-223 63, Sweden
Bodil Roth, Bodil Ohlsson, Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö S-205 02, Sweden
Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson, Appetite Regulation Unit, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund S-222 41, Sweden
Ervin Toth, Department of Gastroenterology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö S-205 02, Sweden
Author contributions: Roth B, Erlanson-Albertsson C, Molin G, Toth E, and Ohlsson B designed the study; Toth E was responsible for the endoscopic examinations and biopsy sampling; Linninge C and Roth B performed the microbial examinations; Ohlsson B wrote the initial draft of the manuscript; all authors contributed to the intellectual criticism of the manuscript and accepted the final version.
Supported by Development Foundation of Region Skåne (BO), No. F2014/354.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Review Board of Lund University (2013/903).
Informed consent statement: The subjects provided written, informed consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no conflicts of interests to declare.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at bodil.ohlsson@med.lu.se. Consent from participants was not obtained for data sharing, but the presented data are anonymized and risk of identification is low.
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Correspondence to: Bodil Ohlsson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Jan Waldenströms Street 15, Malmö S-205 02, Sweden.
bodil.ohlsson@med.lu.se
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Received: August 30, 2017
Peer-review started: September 5, 2017
First decision: October 12, 2017
Revised: November 10, 2017
Accepted: December 6, 2017
Article in press: December 6, 2017
Published online: February 15, 2018
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