What is Heartburn?
What is Heartburn?
- Heartburn: Pain from stomach acid coming back up the esophagus.
- Heartburn: a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Heartburn: Introduction
Types of Heartburn:
Broader types of Heartburn:
How many people get Heartburn?
Prevalance of Heartburn: 15 million Americans have it daily (NIDDK)
Prevalance Rate of Heartburn: approx 1 in 18 or 5.51% or 15 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Heartburn:
More than
60 million Americans have heartburn at least once a month, and about 15
million have it daily. (Source: excerpt from Smoking and Your Digestive System: NIDDK)
How serious is Heartburn?
Complications of Heartburn:
see complications of Heartburn
What causes Heartburn?
Causes of Heartburn: see causes of Heartburn
Cause of Heartburn: Relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) muscle allowing
stomach acid to come back up the esophagus.
Risk factors for Heartburn:
see
risk factors for Heartburn
What are the symptoms of Heartburn?
Symptoms of Heartburn:
see symptoms of Heartburn
Complications of Heartburn:
see complications of Heartburn
Heartburn: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Heartburn.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Heartburn.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Heartburn:
see treatments for Heartburn
Prevention of Heartburn:
see prevention of Heartburn
Research for Heartburn:
see research for Heartburn
Society issues for Heartburn
Hospitalization statistics for Heartburn:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Heartburn:
- 0.03% (3,877) of hospital consultant episodes were for heartburn in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 99% of hospital consultant episodes for heartburn required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 42% of hospital consultant episodes for heartburn were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 58% of hospital consultant episodes for heartburn were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4% of hospital consultant episodes for heartburn required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 1.1 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for heartburn in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for heartburn in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Heartburn:
Organs and body systems related to Heartburn include:
Name and Aliases of Heartburn
Main name of condition: Heartburn
Other names or spellings for Heartburn:
acid indigestion, reflux esophagitis
Pyrosis
Source - WordNet 2.1
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