Research Article
Prevalence and Predictors of Silent Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Patients with Hypertension
Table 5
Factors associated with the prevalence of silent GERD in patients with HT by multivariate logistic regression analysis.
| Factors | Silent GERD (%) | Controls (%) | OR (95% CI) | value |
| Education ≥ 12 years | 8 (12.1) | 71 (23.8) | 0.22 (0.02–2.77) | 0.205 | Abdominal obesity | 29 (43.9) | 88 (29.5) | 11.35 (4.92–26.18) | ≤0.001 | Prescription of calcium channel blockers | 44 (66.7) | 156 (52.3) | 1.42 (0.70–2.92) | 0.333 | Controlled hypertension | 9 (15.8) | 78 (26.2) | 0.02 (0.01–0.09) | ≤0.001 | Untreated hypertension | 6 (9.1) | 8 (2.7) | 17.50 (3.65–83.87) | ≤0.001 |
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CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio; compared with the control group, respectively. |