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Nighttime Acid Reflux Associated With Sleep Impairment
October 17, 2007 at 4:46 PM
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The atypical manifestations or symptoms of GERD are coughing, sore throat, snoring, wheezing, choking, and chest pain. Total of 701 respondents were identified with GERD, using a validated GERD screening tool and the remaining were controls.
The analysis of the study found that sleep impairment was more common among people with GERD, a 41.9 percent, than those without GERD, a 19.4 percent. It was also found that 49.5 percent of respondents with nighttime GERD reported poor sleep often or most of the time, compared to 36.7 percent of people with daytime GERD.
Researchers also assessed sleep impairment among patients experiencing frequent nighttime atypical manifestations of GERD. Of all the GERD patients, 74 percent had at least one nighttime atypical manifestation. For almost every daytime and nighttime atypical manifestation assessed, more than 20 percent of GERD patients reported their occurrence as frequent, i.e. more than 2 days or nights per week.
The study also found that sleep impairment was more common among GERD patients with atypical manifestations compared to GERD patients with only typical or classic symptoms such as heartburn and acid regurgitation. For eight of the nine nighttime atypical manifestations assessed, the GERD cases reported higher sleep impairment as compared to GERD cases with the atypical manifestation compared with GERD cases without the atypical manifestation.
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