Table 4.

Distribution of organic diseases in all subjects with frequent dysphagia and randomly selected subjects with infrequent dysphagia or no dysphagia

Organic diseases	Frequent dysphagia (N=168)	Infrequent dysphagia (N=50)	None (N=50)	p-value§
Esophageal diseases
GERD	53 (31.6%)	9 (18.0%)	7 (14.0%)	0.02
Eosinophilic esophagitis	3 (1.8%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Schatzki’s ring	4 (2.4%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0.46
Achalasia	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Esophageal cancer or operation	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Stricture	4 (2.4%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0.46
Neurologic diseases
Parkinson’s disease	4 (2.4%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0.46
Multiple sclerosis	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Brain injury	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Stroke	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Myasthenia Gravis	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1 (2.0%)	0.37
Chronic Inflammatory	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Demyelinating
Polyneuropathy (CIPD)
Connective tissue diseases
Sjogren’s disease	3 (1.8%)	1 (2.0%)	0 0%)	1.00
Systemic lupus (SLE)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1 (2.0%)	0.37
Polymyositis	1 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00

^§Fisher’s Exact test