Introduction: Functional dyspepsia and digestive disorders arecommon, debilitating and costly. Little information is availableabout the role of stress management in terms of cognitivebehavioraltreatment of dyspepsia. The purpose of this studywas to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stressmanagement on functional dyspepsia symptoms in patients whoreferred to digestion clinics...

Introduction: Helicobacter pylori, as an etiologic cause of peptic ulcers and gastric cancer, should be tested and treated. The true state of infection can only be detected by isolation of gastric biopsies through the invasive method of gastroscopy. However, there are several non-invasive methods for detection of infection, the most common of which is serology. Methods: Here we have evaluated t...

AIM to obtain the proportion of dyspepsia symptom in non-ulcerative dyspepsia patient after eradication treatment of H. pylori, and recent status of H. pylori after eradication therapy. METHODS cross-sectional study in patients with history symptoms of dyspepsia in non ulcer dyspepsia with positive H. pylori and had been administered eradication treatment of H. pylori for 1 week in 2002-2007 ...

What is dyspepsia? Dyspepsia is not a diagnosis, but rather describes a number of symptoms that are thought to originate in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Dyspepsia is an extremely common disorder in otherwise healthy individuals. Less than half of those with symptoms seek medical care. There is no single, accepted definition for dyspepsia. In this review a broad definition of dyspepsia is u...

BACKGROUND Dyspepsia is an upper gastrointestinal tract syndrome presenting epigastric pain and discomfort, fullness sensation, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, and belching. The prevalence of dyspepsia has been reported to be high all over the world. In this study, we reviewed studies reporting the prevalence of dyspepsia in Iran and discussed the probable risk factors of dyspepsia to shed lig...

Dyspepsia is a complex condition comprising chronic and recurrent symptoms related to the upper gastrointestinal tract. The cardinal symptoms are epigastric pain and discomfort, including postprandial fullness and early satiety, which may overlap with heartburn and regurgitation. Box 1 shows the various definitions of dyspepsia. Around 25-40% of adults in the general population have dyspepsia, ...

498 British Journal of General Practice, September 2013 INTRODUCTION The word dyspepsia derives its origin from the Greek work dyspeptos, which means ‘bad digestion’. The term is used to describe symptoms thought to be referable to the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Which symptoms to include in the definition of dyspepsia is controversial, but upper abdominal pain or discomfort, bloating, f...

BACKGROUND/AIM Dyspepsia has a significant impact on the quality of life. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be assessed by disease-specific and generic HRQoL instruments. The present study evaluated HRQoL and compared it among dyspepsia subgroups by using EQ (Euro QoL)-5D questionnaire. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with abnormal findings on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy were clas...

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) was measured in saliva and in gastric juice under basal conditions and after histamine stimulation (0.04 mg kg-'h-'). Sixty subjects studied comprised 20 normal volunteers, 20 patients with duodenal ulcer (DU), and 20 patients with nonulcer dyspepsia (NUD). There was no difference in basal salivary EGF concentrations between control and DU or control and NUD subjec...

The trend of increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance among Helicobacter pylori strains has been suggested as a cause of the failure of treatment of H. pylori infections. In this study, 120 of 211 antral biopsy specimens from patients with dyspeptic symptoms were found to harbor H. pylori. The isolates from the 120 specimens were tested by the agar dilution method, and 38 (31.7%) were fou...