Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30713669›Full record

ArticleMedical gas research

Daily ingestion of alkaline electrolyzed water containing hydrogen influences human health, including gastrointestinal symptoms.

Yoshinori Tanaka, Yasuhiro Saihara, Kyoko Izumotani, Hajime Nakamura

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Article in Medical gas research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yoshinori TanakaAppliances Company, Panasonic Corporation, Shiga, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1123-127X
Yasuhiro SaiharaAppliances Company, Panasonic Corporation, Shiga, Japan.
Kyoko IzumotaniOsaka Municipal Health Promotion Center, Osaka, Japan.
Hajime NakamuraOsaka City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Japan, alkaline electrolyzed water (AEW) apparatus have been approved as a medical device. And for the patients with gastrointestinal symptoms, drinking AEW has been found to be effective in relieving gastrointestinal symptoms. But some users of AEW apparatus do not have abdominal indefinite complaint. Little attention has been given to the benefit for the users which have no abdominal indefinite complaint. The object of this study is to evaluate the effect on health, including gastrointestinal symptoms, when a person without abdominal indefinite complaint,

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alkaline electrolyzed waterfunctional beveragegastrointestinal symptomshydrogen-dissolved waterphysical fitness evaluationsquestionnaire evaluations

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PMID30713669
PMCPMC6352572

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