Clinical Utility of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Pepsin in Diagnosis of Gastroesophageal Reflux among Wheezy Infants

Table 1

Demographic data of the studied groups.

	Continuous; wheeze group	Episodic; wheeze group
(%)	27 (51.9)	25 (48.1)	0.34
Age, median (rang)	9 (3–24)	9 (5–23.5)	0.79
Sex, male (%)	21 (77.8)	14 (56)	0.09
Presence of typical GERD symptoms, (%)	10 (37)	11 (44)	0.81
Abnormal MII-pH, (%)	18 (66.6)	14 (56)	0.2
Reflux esophagitis, (%)	6 (22.2)	8 (32)	0.15

GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease; MII-pH, multiple channel intraluminal impedance-pH.