Gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease in ‘difficult‐to‐control’ asthma: prevalence and response to treatment with acid suppressive therapy

Abstract

More than half of patients with difficult-to-control asthma were diagnosed with GERD. In these patients the severity of asthma improved significantly with potent acid suppression therapy. This underlines the critical role of acid reflux in this subset of patients with difficult-to-control asthma.