Prevalence and Types of Pulmonary Disability in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)

Abstract

GERD is found to be one of the risk factors for various pulmonary disorders, like Obstructive Airway Disease, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Interstitial Lung Diseases either directly or as a confounding factor. Due to higher Prevalence of Obstructive Airway Disease in GERD patients, early diagnosis and Appropriate management can control disease progression and outcome of both conditions. GERD is found to be one of the risk factors for many pulmonary diseases, especially Obstructive Airway Disease, either directly or as a confounding factor and Data on the severity of OAD in symptomatically and endoscopically proven GERD patients are limited in the Indian population, This learning was undertaken to find out the pervasiveness of pulmonary diseases in patients with proven Gastro Esophageal Reflux Diseases (GERD) and to find out the correlation of Symptoms of GERD and Endoscopic finding findings of GERD with the severity of Obstructive Airway Disease using Spirometric Parameters. Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, typically categorized by persistent airway infection. It is described with the aid of the history of breathing symptoms together with wheeze, shortness of breath, chest tightness and cough that vary over time and in intensity, collectively with mutable expiratory airflow restriction. This study focuses on studying the occurrence and types of pulmonary disability in patients with GERD in a tertiary care hospital and on correlating the Symptoms and Endoscopic findings of GERD with the severity of Obstructive Airway Disease as assessed by Spirometric Parameters.