The association between symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease and perceived stress: A countrywide study of Sri Lanka

• Nilanka Wickramasinghe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nilanka Wickramasinghe, Niranga Manjuri Devanarayana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nilanka@physiol.cmb.ac.lk

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3393-1050

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• Ahthavann Thuraisingham ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

  ¶‡ AT, AJ, DW, NS and EY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Achini Jayalath ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

  ¶‡ AT, AJ, DW, NS and EY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1562-3046

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• Dakshitha Wickramasinghe ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ AT, AJ, DW, NS and EY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Nandadeva Samarasekara ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AT, AJ, DW, NS and EY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Etsuro Yazaki ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AT, AJ, DW, NS and EY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gastrointestinal Physiology Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Niranga Manjuri Devanarayana

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nilanka Wickramasinghe, Niranga Manjuri Devanarayana

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

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