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The aim of this study was to compare the discriminative performance of the pHoenix score to total AET and DeMeester score (DMS) in patients undergoing 24-hour transnasal pH-monitoring (24-h pH). This cross-sectional study included consecutive patients (2017\u20132024) undergoing 24-h pH for suspected gastroesophageal reflux disease. Exclusions criteria were prior foregut\/bariatric procedures, outflow obstruction disorders and inadequate pH-studies (&amp;lt;18\u00a0hours). The pHoenix score calculation was (%upright AET\u2009\u00d7\u20090.991)\u2009+\u2009(% supine AET\u2009\u00d7\u20091.286), with thresholds: &amp;lt;7.06 (normal), 7.06\u20138.45 (borderline), &amp;gt;8.45 (pathological). Total AET thresholds were: &amp;lt;4% (normal), 4\u20136% (borderline), and &amp;gt;6% (pathological). The DMS (pathological if &amp;gt;14.72) was the reference standard. Of 500 patients (50% females, median age 51\u00a0years, median BMI 24.65\u00a0kg\/m2), 213 (43%) had pathological DMS. The pHoenix score and total AET identified a similar proportion of normal cases (54% vs. 56.2%, P\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.99), but different pathological (40.4% vs. 30%, P\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.01) and borderline diagnoses (5.6% vs. 13.8%, P\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.01; with a 59% reduction with the pHoenix score). The pHoenix model showed strong performance (pseudo R2:0.877; Akaike information criterion\u2009=\u200983.57). Sensitivity\/specificity were high at both 7.06 (99.1%\/93.4%) and 8.45 (93.9%\/99.3%) cutoffs. The AUC was 0.995 (95% CI: 0.987\u20131) for the pHoenix score, and 0.992 (95% CI: 0.987\u20130.997) for total AET. 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