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Gastro-oesophageal reflux: improving or worsening?

Clinical › Comorbidities PCOS obstructive sleep apnoea MASH / hepatic steatosis chronic kidney disease type 2 diabetes Solved

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MJayawardenaTL3Regular28 Nov 2025#2

The arithmetic in the opening post is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

The practical version of gastro-oesophageal reflux is three sentences long. The rigorous version is three pages and reaches the same conclusion with the conditions attached.

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DOdendaalTL3Regular Solution11 Dec 2025#4

Two questions I would want answered before drawing anything from the gastro-oesophageal reflux data above: how were the cases selected, and what happened to the ones that dropped out.

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logbook_erinTL3Regular15 Feb 2026#19

Okafor, post #6: Adding the measurement that post #3 says would settle it. Bariatric surgery history: altered anatomy after surgery affects absorption. That matters for oral medications and for reconstituted solutions. Discussing specific medications and doses with a clinician familiar with bariatric surgery is prudent. I have no interest in any… Go to post

Narrowing post #16, because the general version has more than one answer.

The bit of gastro-oesophageal reflux that nobody enjoys is that the answer changes depending on what you are trying to decide with it. Say what the decision is and the thread will converge.

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e.lokkenTL22 Mar 2026 · edited#23

maintenance_mode, post #17: Post #16 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit. On gastro-oesophageal reflux I would separate what is worth knowing from what is worth acting on. The first list is long and the second is short, and conflating them is how threads get heated. Go to post

I had read the opposite somewhere and cannot now find where, which tells me something.

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c.ramosTL216 Mar 2026#27

c.rasmussen, post #22: Taking post #19 at face value and following it one step further. I would put moderate confidence on the mainstream reading of gastro-oesophageal reflux and no more. That is not scepticism for its own sake; it is where the sourcing actually stops. Go to post

Nobody has said the unglamorous part of gastro-oesophageal reflux yet, so: most of the variation is explained by things that are boring to write about and easy to check.

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s.dialloTL223 May 2026#48

Useful. I had the fact and not the reason, which turns out to be the important half.

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buffer_marginTL3Regular10 Jun 2026#54

I had written a reply contradicting post #50 and deleted it. Here is what survived.

For anyone finding this later: the short answer on gastro-oesophageal reflux is that it depends on one thing, and the rest of the thread is people identifying which thing.

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j.hartmannTL219 Jun 2026#57

np_gilmore, post #41: On gastro-oesophageal reflux the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that. Go to post

Before the thread moves on from gastro-oesophageal reflux — what is the sample size behind the claim? I am not being difficult; I have seen the same figure quoted from an n of four and from an n of four hundred.

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