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BACKGROUND: The association between bronchial asthma and gastroesofageal reflux provokes in the patient a reserved prognostic which if not diagnosed and treat correctly, if interferes of significative in the life quality. MATERIAL AND METHOD: With the purpose of establishing a relation between the allergic bronchial asthma of the adult, patient with digestive symptoms and healthy volunteer, is carried out a study in 162 subject with these characteristics to whom an barium esophagography was done looking for gastroesofageal reflux. RESULTS: The reflux presence in the asthmatics are of 87.23% and in the patient with digestive upsets, 39.53%, ratio odds (OR), 10-43, confidence interval (IC) of 95%, 3.38-33.83. With relation to the healthy volunteers the OR is in 11.48, IC of 95% 3.93-35.22. Among the patients with digestive upsets and the healthy volunteers the OR is of 1.10, IC of 95%, 0.68-1.64. CONCLUSIONS: The gastroesofageal reflux in the patient with bronchial asthma allergic associated to digestive sintomatology prevails more than in patient with digestive symptoms similar the asthmatics, but without bronchial asthma and also more than in the healthy volunteers.
