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Patients with asthma were most likely to receive a subsequent
diagnosis of GERD within the first year of their diagnosis of asthma.
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In the first study to assess a connection between cases
of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and asthma, in the
same population, over the same time period, researchers
found that patients who are diagnosed with asthma are at a
significantly higher risk of a diagnosis of GERD.
Researchers from Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom examined
data taken from the UK General Practice Research Database.
Researchers followed a cohort of 5,653 patients recently diagnosed
with GERD and 8,105 patients without GERD or asthma, for a mean time
of 3 years and identified 103 cases of asthma in the GERD cohort and
99 cases of asthma in the control group.
During the same study period, researchers followed 9,712 patients
with newly diagnosed asthma and 19,334 control subjects without
asthma or GERD, for a mean of 2.8 years and found 219 patients with
asthma developed GERD, compared to 241 control subjects who
developed GERD during the study period.
Patients with asthma were most likely to receive a subsequent
diagnosis of GERD within the first year of their diagnosis of
asthma. Patients with a diagnosis of GERD were not found to be at
significantly higher risk of developing asthma.
Source
The study appears in the July issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed
journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
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