Ronnie Fass, MD, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and study author, and colleagues identified 4.05 million patients with GERD.
Here are four points:
1. The researchers found 0.05 percent of the patients identified had undergone surgical fundoplication between 2004 and 2013.
2. Overall, there was a 48.8 percent increase in the utilization rate of surgical fundoplication from 2004 to 2009, but a 23 percent decline in the utilization rate of surgical fundoplication from 2009 to 2013.
3. Most patients who underwent surgical fundoplication were women (62.5 percent), white (77.67 percent) and aged 18 to 65 years (66.28 percent).
4. The number of overweight patients who had undergone surgical fundoplication significantly increased over the last decade.
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