This increased risk of GERD was particularly marked in asthma patients who had been treated with oral steroids for > 3 months (n = 11) (OR, 4.5; 95% CI, 1.0 to 19.5).

If your asthma is uncontrolled, especially if you are having nighttime symptoms, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) may be to blame. As many as 75% of patients with difficult to treat asthma ...

Discover how persistent indigestion harms your throat, heart, lungs, and mental health, going far beyond simple discomfort to ...

Background: Asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) often coexist. However, the results of the studies investigating the prevalence of GERD among patients with asthma vary greatly.

GERD may also cause esophagus hypersensitivity to stomach acid, resulting in swallowing issues. Asthma and acid reflux may occur together, but the connection is unclear as to why. Acid reflux can ...

Unless you're a smoker, chronic cough has three major causes: postnasal drip, asthma (the most likely of lung diseases that can cause coughing) and gastroesophageal reflux disease, better known as ...

Dr Stephen Sontag is Professor of Medicine at Loyola University School of Medicine and Staff Physician in Gastroenterology at the Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois.