[Higher prevalence of obesity in erosive gastroesophageal reflux disease].

Context: Weight loss is commonly recommended as a treatment for gastroesophageal reflux; however, a relationship between excessive body weight and gastroesophageal reflux disease is not well established.

Objectives: To evaluate the prevalence of obesity and over-weight in patients with heartburn, with and without erosive esophagitis; to analyze the prevalence of hiatal hernia and the intensity of abnormal gastroesophageal reflux in both groups of patients, and its relation to body mass index.

Methods: The data of pH monitoring of 362 individuals with heartburn were evaluated retrospectively.

[Prevalence of supraesophageal manifestations in patients with gastroesophageal erosive and non-erosive reflux disease].

Background: Respiratory, ear-nose and throat complaints, chest pain and dysphagia can be a part of clinical manifestations of gastroesophageal reflux disease. The first two are named supraesophageal manifestations of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Controversy about the prevalence of these clinical manifestations in patients with non-erosive and erosive gastroesophageal reflux disease exists.