This was a case control study conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Kerala to nd out the factors that can cause GERD among 138 subjects after
getting Institutional Ethics Committee permission and Informed consent from the subjects. Data was collected with the help of questionnaire and
also from the medical records. Data was analysed in the SPSS software; proportions and Odds ratio with 95% condence interval were calculated.
Pan chewing and Hypercholesterolemia were found to be associated with GERD and 24% of the patients had Barrett’s esophagus on upper GI
endoscopy
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