- Assoc w/obesity
- ETOH
- Smoking
- Pregnancy
- Hiatal hernia
- Age >50
- Caffeine, chocolate, mint
- Rarely: scleroderma, mixed connective tissue d/o, other connective tissue dz
- Chronic/recurrent burning type pain
- Often worse after meals
- Worse if lie down after eating
- Bad taste in mouth
- Radiates up from epigastrium
- Extraesophageal sx→ cough, wheezing, hoarseness from laryngitis