By using a national survey, researchers have provided scientific evidence that nighttime acid reflux, along with some of the less typical symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), are associated with significant sleep impairment.
The research team (Dean & Fass, 2007) found that sleep impairment was more common among people with GERD (41.9 percent) than those without GERD (19.4 percent). Researchers also found that 49.5 percent of the study respondents with nighttime GERD...
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