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A FRESH LOOK AT PREGNANCY HEARTBURN
Author(s) -
Atlay R. D.,
Gillison E. W.,
Horton A. L.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1973.tb02133.x
Subject(s) - heartburn , medicine , pregnancy , incidence (geometry) , obstetrics , gynecology , reflux , physics , disease , biology , optics , genetics
Summary Recent surveys on pregnancy heartburn in Sheffield and Liverpool, and Chicago, U.S.A., have shown the incidence to be similar in both countries, and that it occurred in about two‐thirds of all pregnancies analyzed. Negro women suffered from this symptom as much as Caucasian women, though it occurred later in the pregnancy in the former group. Using a radiological test, a significant association was found between the symptom of heartburn and incompetence of the pyloric sphincter.