Clinical and epidemiological features and risk factors for the development of gastroesophageal reflux disease: current state of the problem
Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract occupy an important place in the structure of general morbidity, representing a serious economic and medico-social problem. The leading position among them all over the world, including in Russia, is gastroesophageal reflux disease. At the same time, data on the prevalence of this disease, as well as risk factors for its development, have significant differences in different regions of the world. The latter was the basis for an extensive review of literature data over the past 5 years on this issue in the search engines of the global Internet: Yandex.ru, Google, Mail.ru, Bing. The following terms in English were included in the search engines: gastroesophageal reflux disease, gerd, heartburn, esophagitis, heartburn prevalence, risk factors for gastroesophageal reflux disease, epidemiology of gastroesophageal reflux disease.