Correlation between severity of endoscopic findings and apnea-hypopnea index in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease and obstructive sleep apnea

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 839-841

  Demeter, Pál ^a   Visy, Katalin Várdi ^b   Magyar, Pál ^b  

^a Department of Gastroenterology   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Correlation; Gastroesophageal reflux disease; Obstructive sleep apnea; Severity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

EID: 14544297403     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i6.839     Document Type: Article

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