OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of common mental disorders among diagnosed functional dyspepsia patients. METHODS A case-control study with 150 cases of functional dyspepsia (FD) and 150 healthy controls were recruited from Gastroenterology Clinic at the Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi from 1st March 2009 through 31st August 2009. Urdu version of WHO-developed Self-Reporting Questionna...

Dyspepsia affects a quarter of the population annually. Most of them have a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID), eg. functional dyspepsia (FD) or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). There is a great deal of evidence on the association between psychological factors, eg. anxiety and depression, and FGIDs. It is uncertain if 1) psychological factors cause dyspepsia, 2) dyspepsia causes psychol...

OBJECTIVES No data are currently available on the prevalence and characteristics of functional dyspepsia among cement workers. Given the potential impact of dyspepsia on work performance, whether its prevalence is increased among workers exposed to cement dust was evaluated. METHODS Altogether 420 cement workers were enrolled in the study. According to the individual exposure levels to cement...

INTRODUCTION A signifi cant fraction of the average gastroenterology practice is devoted to the management of functional gastrointestinal disorders, of which the most frequent are irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia. Th ese patients are highly heterogenous, and the lack of a known etiology and wide variability in treatment response makes them particularly challenging to mana...