Background and study aims: Acid regurgitation and/or heartburn are symptoms of Gastrointestinal Reflux Disease (GERD), ‎which is the most frequent gastrointestinal diagnosis. Non-cardiac chest pain is well documented to ‎be linked to gastroesophageal reflux illness. We aimed to assess the link between GERD and ‎cardiac arrhythmia.‎
Patients and Methods: ‎‎‎ A total of 50 GERD patients were chosen from the Gastroenterology Unit of the Internal Medicine ‎Department at Assiut university hospitals for this cross-sectional study. Patients had their medical ‎histories taken, physical examinations performed, biochemical tests performed, and a full heart ‎examination performed‎.‎
Results: The SDDN (R-R interval) was determined to be 100.1±18.8 on average. Patients with S-T ‎depression made up half of the sample, with an average S-T depression score of 0.92±0.20. ‎Furthermore, around two-thirds of the individuals developed arrhythmia. There was a favorable ‎connection between the occurrence of GERD and cardiac arrhythmia when all correlates were ‎adjusted. The intercept (constant) in the final model after controlling for all correlates was 15.81, ‎and four correlates, positive diabetes history, smokers, and patients with S-T segment ‎depression/arrhythmia, were found as independent predictors of reflux episode number‎‎‎‎.
Conclusion: The presence of GERD enhanced the likelihood of cardiac arrhythmia, according to this study. ‎There was a link between having GERD and having cardiac arrhythmia‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎.