When Barrett's or esophagitis are considered as evidence of GER, 43% of asthmatics have GER-associated mucosal disease.

Asthma is a chronic condition that is most prevalent among children and adolescents However adults can also develop it due to ...

A recent longitudinal cohort study published in the Cureus journal uncovered a significant link between shorter dinner-to-bed ...

[27] However, possible nonacidic reflux might, at least partly, explain why in the current study only 51% of the patients who presented with classical reflux symptoms were found to have GERD in ...

If your asthma is uncontrolled, especially if you are having nighttime symptoms, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) may be to blame. As many as 75% of patients with difficult to treat asthma ...

In two double-blind, randomized, cross-over, placebo trials of ranitidine in adults [12,13] and one in children [14] with GER disease and asthma, only slight or no improvement in asthma symptoms ...

GERD may also cause esophagus hypersensitivity to stomach acid, resulting in swallowing issues. Asthma and acid reflux may occur together, but the connection is unclear as to why. Acid reflux can ...

Breathing disorders are common in the U.S. with conditions like COPD affecting some 7% of the population and asthma affecting another 10%. Digestive conditions like GERD, acid reflux, Celiac ...

Dr Stephen Sontag is Professor of Medicine at Loyola University School of Medicine and Staff Physician in Gastroenterology at the Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois.

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