Epidemiology of uninvestigated and functional dyspepsia in Asia: Facts and fiction

• Main Authors: Uday C. Ghoshal, Rajan Singh, Full Young Chang, Xiaohua Hou, Benjamin Chun Yu Wong, Udom Kachintorn
• Other Authors: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Lucknow
• Format: Review
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/12456
• Institution: Mahidol University

Dyspepsia is a syndrome consisting of epigastric pain, burning, fullness, discomfort, early satiety, nausea, vomiting and belching. Functional dyspepsia (FD) is diagnosed if upper gastrointestinal endoscopy does not show structural abnormality explaining these symptoms. 8%-30% and 8%-23% of Asian pe...