[Secretory and morphological state of the stomach in alimentary obesity patients kept on a low-calorie diet].

The authors studied gastric secretion in 117 persons with alimentary obesity of degree II and III along with the morphological picture of the gastric mucosa. The secretion was investigated by the fractional method, pH-metry and without tubage. In the majority of patients with alimentary obesity gastric secretion proved to be normal. In these patients a greater appetite was not associated with an intensified secretion. In all of the cases under examination the morphological picture revealed the presence of chronic gastritis.