Risk Factors
The following are risk factors that can result in a hiatus hernia.
- Increased pressure within the abdomen caused by:
- Heavy lifting or bending over
- Frequent or hard coughing
- Hard sneezing
- Pregnancy and delivery
- Violent vomiting
- Straining with constipation
- Obesity (extra weight pushes down on the abdomen increasing the pressure)
- Use of the sitting position for defecation (See epidemiology below)
- Heredity
- Smoking
- Drug use, such as cocaine
- Stress
- Diaphragm weakness
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