Table 1.

Diet and Lifestyle Factors Related to Each Disease Type in Western and Eastern Country

Diet and Lifestyle Categories	Details About Each Category	GERD		NERD		RE		BE
		W	E	W	E	W	E	W	E
Dietary pattern	Non-Mediterranean diet, consumption of non-vegetarian food, no intake of meat	+	+
Dietary habits	Habit of midnight snacks, skipping breakfast, eating quickly, eating beyond fullness, eating very hot foods, frequent liquid food consumption		+		+		+
Habits after a meal	Lying down soon after eating, Post dinner physical activity (walking), Post dinner physical activity (lying), Post dinner physical activity (sitting)		+
Coffee	Coffee, former coffee drinkers	+					+	+
Tea	Tea, peppermint tea, green tea, lower intake of salt tea, Tibetan sweet tea	+	+		+		+		+
Beverage	Soft drink	+
Milk	Milk, infrequent milk intake		+		+
Vegetables	Vegetable, dark green vegetable, bean, vegetable and fruit		+		+			+
Fruit	Fruit, Citrus intake Between meals, citrus				+			+
Vitamins	Vitamin-E, vitamin-C, folate, vitamin-B2, vitamin-B6, vitamin-B12, isoflavones, lutein, anthocyanidins	+				+		+
Antioxidant correlation	Dietary inflammatory index							+
Micronutrient	Magnesium, dietary iron intake					+		+
Salt	Salt intake, extra salt on regular meals, Table salt use	+	+
Taste and flavour of food	Raw or cold food, spicy, sweet		+		+
Staple food	Bread high in dietary fibre content, starch	+				+
Protein	Processed meat, Tibetan dried meat, egg, Daily meat, fish, and egg intake		+		+	+
Fat	Fried food, greasy food, high fat diet, saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, total fat	+	+		+	+			+
Fiber	Total fiber							+
Energy	Total energy				+		+
Dinner to bedtime interval	Dinner within two hours before going to sleep, eat 2h before bed, dinner-to-bed time was less than 3 h		+
Smoking related	Smoking, Current smoker, Former smoker	+	+	+	+		+	+
Drinking related	Alcohol, liquor, wine, beer, alcohol‑abusing, Tibetan barley wine	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Psychological status	Depression, state anxiety, trait anxiety, anxiety, anxiety or depression, strong psychological stress, poor mental state		+		+		+
Marriage state	Divorced/widowed, widowed/widowers, married		+		+		+
Education	Education level only elementary, level of education, education level	+	+
Occupation related traits	Sedentary lifestyle, standing occupations, physical labour, night shift		+					+
Abdominal pressure related	The belt too tight, wearing girdles or corsets, constipation		+		+
Exercise	Never exercise, physical inactivity, Exercise time less than 30 minutes, exercise, exercise daily >30 minutes, Physical exercise of >30 minutes(>3times/week)	+	+
Sleep	Insomnia, hours of sleep, staying up late		+
Living environment	Altitude of residence, length of residence, rural, urban dwelling		+
Others	Snore, Pan masala chewing		+		+

Notes: +, stand as there are positive found in here.

Abbreviations: GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease; NERD, nonerosive gastroesophageal reflux disease; RE, reflux esophagitis; BE, Barrett’s esophagus; W, Western country; E, Eastern country.