Aim: To study the functional dyspepsia in chronic hemodialysis patients of CNHU-HKM of Cotonou. Methods: This descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional study ran from 1 September 2013 to 28 February 2014 in the University Clinic of Nephrology Dialysis of CNHU-HKM of Cotonou. It included all chronic renal failure patients on hemodialysis for at least 9 months prior to the survey. After identif...

Acute dyspepsia is a common gastrointestinal problem in clinical practice. Sometimes, this disorder is usually mentioned as a functional disorder[1]. This disease is due to the poor dietary behavior and there is a scientific evidence that the gastric infection by Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the cause of this medical disorder. Here, the authors report on the prevalence of H. pylori seropo...

OBJECTIVES Dyspepsia is defined as persistent or recurrent abdominal pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen. Dyspepsia represents up to 8.3% of all primary care physician visits and causes huge economic costs to patients and to the economy as a whole. The aim of this study was to measure the influence of dyspepsia on work productivity of people within the Brazilian workforce. METHOD...

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...

This retrospective, observational study was conducted to determine overlap of prevalence between atrial fibrillation (AF), an increasingly common condition that primarily affects the elderly population, and dyspepsia, which is also common. Because the overlap of these conditions could interfere with health care including medication selection, the effect on patient outcomes was also evaluated. A...

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 Helicobacter pylori is known to be a cause of active chronic gastritis and has been proposed as an etiologic factor in the development of peptic ulcer disease, but controversy continues regarding the pathogenic importance and mechanism. We examined the prevalence of H. pylori infection in patients with peptic ulcers and non-ulcer dyspepsia. METHOD 749 patients (373 with duodenal ul...