The nonerosive reflux disease???gastroesophageal reflux disease controversy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To analyse the concept of nonerosive reflux disease (NERD), examining its evolving definition and its relationship to reflux disease and functional gastrointestinal disorders. RECENT FINDINGS: The advent of the Montreal definition of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and the Rome III definition of functional upper gastrointestinal disorders has refined the concept of NERD. The high prevalence of GERD symptoms and the strong overlap between GERD and irritable bowel syndrome is due to the influence of NERD. Subtle differences exist between patterns of acid exposure in NERD and erosive disease on pH testing. Symptom generation in NERD may be influenced by altered mucosal permeability. Improvements in endoscopic technology demonstrate esophageal mucosal changes in NERD which are not seen in controls. There is a general acknowledgement that the inferior symptomatic response to acid suppression reported in NERD is attributable, at least in part, to contamination of study populations by patients with functional heartburn. SUMMARY: NERD is common and its definition continues to evolve. For the present, however, this should be considered to be heartburn with and without regurgitation due to gastroesophageal reflux in the absence of esophageal mucosal erosions. Future studies examining treatment response of GERD subgroups must exclude functional heartburn if NERD is to be properly understood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".