INTRODUCTION Functional dyspepsia and digestive disorders are common, debilitating and costly. Little information is available about the role of stress management in terms of cognitive-behavioral treatment of dyspepsia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management on functional dyspepsia symptoms in patients who referred to digestion c...

BACKGROUNDS Dyspepsia is a condition that affects 25% of the U.S. population, and, when associated with pyrosis, its prevalence reaches 40%. Patients with chronic renal insufficiency not only present higher circulating levels of gastrin and gastric dysmotilty, but also make use of a great amount of drugs for the treatment of their comorbidities. This situation increases the chances of developin...

Background: Heartburn precludes ruling out gastroesophageal reflux (GER) to diagnose functional heartburn (FH). Aims: To explore the frequency of GER in patients in Mexico reporting heartburn according to Rome II and whether GER in non-heartburn patients is related to dyspepsia. Methods: We analyzed 40 patients that answered the Rome II Questionnaire in Spanish-Mexico and were tested with pH-mo...

BACKGROUND Heartburn precludes ruling out gastroesophageal reflux (GER) to diagnose functional heartburn (FH). AIMS To explore the frequency of GER in patients in Mexico reporting heartburn according to Rome II and whether GER in non-heartburn patients is related to dyspepsia. METHODS We analyzed 40 patients that answered the Rome II Questionnaire in Spanish-Mexico and were tested with pH-m...

Background/Aim. Alarm features (AF) are of limited utility in predicting endoscopic findings, and the majority patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia will have no organic pathology identified at upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. In our previous study, we highlighted seroreactivity against Helicobacter pylori (HP) antigens VacA, 50 kDa, 30 kDa as biomarkers for gastric cancer, peptic ulcers, fun...

Background: Depression is a mood disorder that impacts an individual’s neuroendocrine system and overall quality of life. on medical student will hinders academic performance able to stay undetected affect their professionalism as doctor in the future, which then lowers service patient’s safety whole. Due disturbances, depression can also cause somatic symptoms where most common symptom found d...