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Functional heartburn has more in common with functional dyspepsia than with non-erosive reflux disease
INTRODUCTION Functional dyspepsia and non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) are prevalent gastrointestinal conditions with accumulating evidence regarding an overlap between the two. Still, patients with NERD represent a very heterogeneous group and limited data on dyspeptic symptoms in various subgroups of NERD are available. AIM To evaluate the prevalence of dyspeptic symptoms in patients with ...
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Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disorder in Western countries. For many years our attention has been focused on patients with erosive esophagitis, but in recent times we have realized that endoscopy-negative reflux disease is the most common presentation of this illness, affecting up to 70% of these individuals. Patients with the non-erosive form (NERD) are a heterogeneous gr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pharmacy Today
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1042-0991
DOI: 10.1016/j.ptdy.2018.12.007