CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE AT HANOI GENERAL HOSPITAL OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Linh1, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Tú2,
1 National Hospital of Acupuncture
2 Hanoi Medical University

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Objectives: Survey the traditional medicine patterns of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease at Hanoi General Hospital of Traditional Medicine. Subjects: Patients have been diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease from January 2022 to June 2022. Methods: A cross-sectional study. Results: 60 patients were selected for the study. The mean age in the study was 49.58 ± 18.47. The rate of females was higher than that of their counterparts (58.3 %). The disease duration was mainly above 12 months (55.0 %). 25.0 % of patients were overweight and obese, 23.3 % of patients had a waist circumference greater than the norm. The percentage of the patients with the Liver qi invading Stomach pattern and the Spleen-Stomach deficiency cold pattern was 83.3% and 16.7%, respectively. Traditional medicine symptoms: 83.3% of patients had symptoms of sour swallowing, 80.0% of patients had unpleasant symptoms of depression. The mean total GERD Q score of patients on admission (Liver qi invading Stomach: 10.77 ± 2.22, Spleen-Stomach deficiency cold: 10.65 ± 1.97.

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