BACKGROUND Dyspepsia is a common disorder that can present many clinical dilemmas in patient management. Although not life-threatening, the symptoms are long-lasting, interfere with daily activities and have a significant impact upon quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of dyspepsia and its relationship with demographic and socioeconomic factors, and lifestyle in a...

OBJECTIVE To explore patient factors related to the use of prescribed and non-prescribed drugs for dyspepsia in The Netherlands. DESIGN Patient survey study. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Questionnaires sent to patients who had a prescription for dyspepsia medication from their general practitioner. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Patient factors related to the on-demand use of prescribed medication and the...

Dyspepsia refers to a condition of impaired digestion which has a yearly incidence of approximately 1%, and the prevalence of around 20-30%. Although the etiology of dyspepsia varies, an organic cause is found in only 40% of the patients. In the differential diagnosis of dyspepsia, cardiac, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and intestinal disorders and gastroesophageal reflux disease can be eliminated...

Non ulcer dyspepsia is a common gastrointestinal problem, the etiopathogenesis of which is not well established. This study was planned to see the effect of environmental factors like smoking, tea, alcohol, and NSAIDs consumption with non-ulcer dyspepsia. This study was conducted in the department of Gastroenterology, Medicine and Radiology of I.G. Medical College, Shimla, India. Three hundred ...

BACKGROUND Monitoring wait times and defining targets for care have been advocated to improve health care delivery related to cancer, heart, diagnostic imaging, joint replacements and sight restoration. There are few data on access to care for digestive diseases, although they pose a greater economic burden than cancer or heart disease in Canada. The present study compared wait times for specia...

One hundred consecutive patients who had consulted their general practitioner because of upper abdominal pain related to eating, were investigated after initial interviews by the general practitioner, a medical registrar and the same consultant physician. Thirty seven had active upper gastrointestinal or biliary tract diseases, including 29 with peptic ulcers. The general practitioner and consu...

Functional dyspepsia (FD) is the most common cause of dyspeptic symptoms. It refers to a heterogeneous group of symptoms located in the upper abdomen. The prevalence of dyspepsia is variable in different populations and is related to the different definitions of dyspepsia as inclusion criterias, variation in survey population and environmental factors. Epidemiologically some risk factors have b...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The economic impact of dyspepsia in regions with a diverse healthcare system remains uncertain. This study aimed to estimate the costs of dyspepsia in a rural and urban population in Malaysia. METHODS Economic evaluation was performed based on the cost-of-illness method. Resource utilization and quality of life data over a specific time frame, were collected to determine direc...

Dyspepsia refers to group of commonly occurring upper gastrointestinal symptoms. The majority of patients with dyspepsia suffer from functional (nonulcer) dyspepsia. Although there is a lack of epidemiological data from population-based or patient cohort studies in Korea, the current understanding of this condition has been updated using data from various recent research studies, which have fac...

BACKGROUND There is little information of the validity of generic instruments in measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with dyspepsia. We aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the EQ-5D, a brief and simple instrument, in measuring HRQOL in adult patients with dyspepsia. METHODS Consecutive adults with dyspepsia attending the Gastroenterology clinic in a tertia...