Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Frontiers SeriesSymposia Theme: ‘MOOCs in Postmodern Asia’ (Oct 27, 2014) and ‘Big Data and Precision Medicine’ (Oct 28, 2014)Session - Big Data and Precision Medicine: e-Poster no. 12published_or_final_versio

Ho, DSY

Lam, TH

Lo, WS

Mok, HY

Yung, HYD

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Title Doctor-diagnosed Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease in HongKong adolescents: prevalence and atypical symptomsAuthor(s) Mok, HY; Ho, DSY; Yung, HYD; Lo, WS; Lam, THCitation The 2014 East-West Alliance Global Symposia, Hong Kong,China, 27-28 October 2014Issued Date 2014URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207861Rights Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License  Doctor-diagnosed Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease in  Hong Kong adolescents:  prevalence and atypical symptoms    Mok HY, Ho SY, Yung D, Lo WS, Lam TH School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong     Funding: University Research Committee Strategic Research Theme on Public Health, University of Hong Kong     Image source: Internet (available from author) Background  Some atypical symptoms have been  suggested to identify subjects with  Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD)  Objectives  • Investigate the prevalence of GORD       in Hong Kong adolescents  • Investigate its association with       5 atypical symptoms Methods     34678 secondary school students (mean age 14.6, SD 2.0; 44.4% boys) from 42 randomly selected schools   Questionnaire • Diagnosed with GORD by Western medical practitioners (yes or no) • Presence of the 5 atypical symptoms in the past 30 days (yes or no) • Number of atypical symptoms (0 as reference, 1-3 and 4-5)  Logistics regression was used to assess associations, adjusting for confounders  Conclusion Results          The prevalence of GORD was 1.4% (95% CI 1.3%-1.5%)  Our study supports the use of these atypical symptoms for GORD identification.    Each atypical symptom was significantly associated with GORD Likelihood of GORD increased with the number of atypical symptoms  Most adolescents with GORD had 1 or more symptoms  Higher prevalence of atypical symptoms in adolescents with GORD 

Doctor-diagnosed Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease in Hong Kong adolescents: prevalence and atypical symptoms

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Doctor-diagnosed Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease in Hong Kong adolescents: prevalence and atypical symptoms

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