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We compared 329 BE cases separately with two control groups of patients without endoscopically suspected BE on their study EGD: (1) 503 patients recruited from primary care clinics (“Primary care controls”), representing the underlying source population from which cases arose; and (2) 1353 patients recruited from endoscopy clinics (“Endoscopy controls”), representing the population undergoing endoscopy from which cases are diagnosed.
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