Causal links found between GERD, asthma, atopic dermatitis

In an accompanying editorial by Meghan D. Althoff, and Sunita Sharma, of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, they wrote that more information on the functional genetic effects that lead to the associations found between asthma, atopic dermatitis and GERD are necessary.