[Prevalence of esophageal syndromes of gastroesophageal reflux disease in population of Leningrad region (according to esophagogastroduodenoscopy findings)].

The article presents an analysis of 34.903 esophagoscopy results performed for population of Leningrad region at the period from 2007 to 2013. A prevalence of erosive esophagitis was 4.9%, peptic strictures--0.18%, columnar-celled metaplasias--1.43% and esophageal adenocarcinoma--0.645%. The data obtained showed a high prevalence of GERD-associated syndromes with injury of mucous coat of esophagus in the local population of Russians.