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Socio-demographic and disease characteristics of patients allocated to GERD-education vs. control groups, recorded at baseline. |
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| Education (n = 102) |
Control (n = 109) |
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| Age, years |
47 (12) |
47 (14) |
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| Sex (female) |
49% |
50% |
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| Primary school only |
31% |
34% |
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| Cohabitating |
77% |
80% |
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| Blue-collar worker |
22% |
22% |
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| BMI (kg/m2) |
26 (3.6) |
26 (4.7) |
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| Previous history of serious disease |
14% |
17% |
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| Length of GERD history (months) |
166 (151) |
169 (154) |
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| Esophagitis |
60% |
51% |
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| Having used H2-blocker or PPI |
72% |
63% |
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| Ranitidine responder |
41% (n = 74) |
47% (n = 71) |
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| Somatic comorbidity |
53% |
54% |
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| Psychiatric comorbidity |
8% |
10% |
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Continuous variables are means (SD), categorical variables are percentages. | ||
Urnes et al. BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:236 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-236 |
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