Gastroesophageal reflux in lockdown.
Hafez AlmomaniDua'a Al BalawiMuna AlmasriHadeel AlGhawrieLujain IbrahimLena AdliHadeel Al BalawiSameer Al Haj MahmoudPublished in: Future science OA (2023)
A statistically significant increase in GerdQ score was identified among participants during the COVID-19 pandemic (t = 7.055, df = 209, p < 0.001), who had experienced an increase in the frequency of positive predictors of GERD and a decrease in the frequency of negative predictors of GERD. The COVID-19 pandemic and its related lockdown countermeasures may have led to exacerbating and worsening GERD symptoms.