Gerd: clinical solutions of problems in general practice.

Introduction: A systematic review of the results of 15 epidemiological studies showed that the prevalence of GERD in the population of Western Europe and North America is 10-20%. The frequency of GERD prevalence in the population is obviously higher than that according to the data of statistics, due to the fact that only a small amount of patients with heartburn apply for medical care, and the fact that not all doctors, especially general practitioners, devote sufficient attention to this problem. However, one of the features of modern clinical medicine is that diseases lose their mono- morbid character and more often becomes comorbid.