Abstract

Gastroesophageal reflux(GER)with sliding hernia can cause chronic cough or bronchial asthma. In late years,these reports of pulmonary disease with GERD(gastroesophageal reflux disease)are increasing in Asia. We experienced older aged woman with bronchial athma complicated with GERD. However increasing reports of asthma with GERD,the cause of brobchoconstriction complicated with sliding hernia is stil unclear. Previous researchers found a significantly higher incidence rate for GERD in those with a previous diagnosis of asthma than in controls,indicating that patients with asthma were 1.8 times more likely to evelop GERD than those without asthma. In this study,we reviewed the association between gastro-esophageal reflux disease and sthma

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