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Joint mobility in people with hiatus hernia
Z S Al-Rawi1, K Y Al-Dubaikel, H Al-Sikafi
1Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad and Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Iraq. zsalrawi@uruklinik.net
Objective:
To assess joint mobility in people with hiatus hernia.
Methods:
A comparative control study was made on 100 patients attending an endoscopic unit. Fifty patients with hiatus hernia were compared with a control group matched for age, sex and body mass index without hiatus hernia. Mobility was scored on a scale of 0-9.
Results:
There were 11 (22%) patients in the hiatus hernia group with hypermobile joint score 4-9 compared with three (6%) subjects in the control group (P<0.001), whilst the total mobility score among hypermobile patients was 59 in the hiatus hernia group compared with 13 in the control group (P<0.005).
Conclusion:
There is a positive correlation between the presence of hiatus hernia and joint mobility.
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