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Odynophagia risk factors
Introduction
Overview
Overview
There are no established risk factors for odynophagia. However individual conditions which produce pain on swallowing may have independent risk factors.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
There are no established risk factors for odynophagia. However individual conditions which produce pain on swallowing may have independent risk factors.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Common Conditions & Their Risk Factors
Upper respiratory tract infections:
- Smoking
- Extremes of age
- Cold
- Low immunity
- Malnutrition
- Allergy
- Lack of immunization
Tumors:
- Smoking
- Betel nuts
- Age over 60
- Male gender
- Alcohol consumption
- Obesity
- Lye Ingestion
- Nitrosamine in food
- Gastroesophageal reflux disorder
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Achalasia
- EBV
- HIV
- Radiation
Foreign body
- Young age
- Neuropathy
- Decreased consciousness
GERD
- Smoking
- Obesity
- Pregnancy
- Hiatal hernia
- Scleroderma
- Drinking a lot of alcohol
- Consuming drinks that contain caffeine
- Anticholinergics (e.g. for sea sickness)
- Beta blockers for high blood pressure or heart disease
- Bronchodilators for asthma
- Calcium channel blockers for high blood pressure
- Dopamine active drugs for Parkinson’s disease
- Progestin for abnormal menstrual bleeding or birth control
- Sedatives for insomnia or anxiety
- Tricyclic antidepressants
Esophagitis:
- Smoking
- Obesity
- Pregnancy
- Hiatal hernia
- Scleroderma
- Alcohol consumption
- Consuming drinks that contain caffeine
- Anticholinergics (e.g. for sea sickness)
- Beta blockers for high blood pressure or heart disease
- Bronchodilators for asthma
- Calcium channel blockers for high blood pressure
- Dopamine-active drugs for Parkinson’s disease
- Progestin for abnormal menstrual bleeding or birth control
- Sedatives for insomnia or anxiety
- Tricyclic antidepressants
References
References
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- ↑ Kocsis D, Tulassay Z, Juhász M (2015). “[Dietary and pharmacological aspects of eosinophilic esophagitis]”. Orv Hetil (in Hungarian). 156 (23): 927–32. doi:10.1556/650.2015.30164. PMID 26027600.
- ↑ El-Serag HB, Sweet S, Winchester CC, Dent J (2014). “Update on the epidemiology of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a systematic review”. Gut. 63 (6): 871–80. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2012-304269. PMC 4046948. PMID 23853213.
- ↑ Jarosz M, Taraszewska A (2014). “Risk factors for gastroesophageal reflux disease: the role of diet”. Prz Gastroenterol. 9 (5): 297–301. doi:10.5114/pg.2014.46166. PMC 4223119. PMID 25396005.
- ↑ Wong A, Fitzgerald RC. Epidemiologic risk factors for Barrett’s esophagus and associated adenocarcinoma. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005 Jan;3(1):1-10. PMID 15645398
- ↑ Ye W, Held M, Lagergren J, Engstrand L, Blot WJ, McLaughlin JK, Nyren O. Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric atrophy: risk of adenocarcinoma and squamous-cell carcinoma of the esophagus and adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004 Mar 3;96(5):388-96. PMID 14996860
- ↑ Nakajima S, Hattori T. Oesophageal adenocarcinoma or gastric cancer with or without eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection in chronic atrophic gastritis patients: a hypothetical opinion from a systematic review. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2004 Jul;20 Suppl 1:54-61. PMID 15298606
- ↑ NCI Prevention: Dietary Factors, based on Chainani-Wu N. Diet and oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancer. Nutr Cancer 2002;44:104-26. PMID 12734057.
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