Title: Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in the Greek general population
Abstract: who reported a subjective symptomatic improvement during PPI treatment and symptoms deterioration dining withdrawal of PPI treatment.Conclusions: Chinese-GERDQ was easytomndersrand, internally consistent and reproducible.It predicted global symptom change, and the symptom seventy scores correlated negatively with quality of life.It could be used m epidemiologieal studies to assess the t~ceqnancy and severity of GERD in patient populations and in interventional studies of GERD. Seven items selected by Io~ regression and their relative weighting Symptom assessedWeighting by pdncipal,,component method Freqeeoc~ of heEe~rn 0.3o9 Severity of hudbum 0.290 Frequency of ~g of acidity in stomach 0,390 Severity of feeling of acidity in stomach 0.372 Frequency of acid regurgitation 0.441 Sevet~ of acid regu~on 0.403 Frequency of use of antacids 0.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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