Association between Lifestyle and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Questionnaire Scores: A Cross-Sectional Study of 37 442 Chinese Adults

Table 1

Comparisons the clinical data between GerdQ score of ≥8 points and GerdQ score of <8 points.

Features	GerdQ score of <8 points ()	GerdQ score of ≥8 points; ()	value	value	value
Gender			111.571		≤0.001
Female	8 508 (83.67%)	1 660 (16.33%)
Male	21485 (78.77%)	5789 (21.23%)
Age			12.042		0.002
Young	10 060 (80.38%)	2 456 (19.62%)
Middle-aged	17 710 (79.67%)	4 518 (20.33%)
Elderly	2 223 (82.39%)	475 (17.61%)
BMI			145.227		≤0.001
<18.5	579 (84.16%)	109 (15.84%)
18.5 ≤ BMI<24	10 535 (83.02%)	2 154 (16.98%)
24 ≤ BMI< 28	13 443 (79.35%)	3 499 (20.65%)
≥28	5 436 (76.32%)	1 687 (23.68%)
Waist circumstance				16.004	≤0.001
Systolic blood pressure				4.760	≤0.001
Diastolic blood pressure				8.107	≤0.001
Fasting blood glucose (mmol/L))				2.059	0.039
TC (mmol/L)				4.245	≤0.001
TG (mmol/L)				9.966	≤0.001
HDL-C (mmol/L)				9.137	≤0.001
LDL-C (mmol/L)				3.031	0.002
UA (μmol/L)				8.812	≤0.001

BMI: body mass index; TC: cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; UA: uric acid. Univariate regression analysis was performed focusing on the 12 background factors, comprised of two continuous variables (age and BMI) and other 10 categorical variables. Student’s test was used to evaluate the correlation between each background factor and GerdQ score ( deviation is shown). The level of significance in each factor was set at value <0.05 ().