One of the critically important features of successful treatment for functional gastrointestinal disorders, such as functional dyspepsia, is a sound patient-physician relationship. The physician ...

Functional dyspepsia refers to painful and nonpainful symptoms that are perceived to arise in the upper digestive tract but are not secondary to organic, systemic or metabolic diseases. The symptoms ...

Functional dyspepsia is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders encountered in clinical practice. Despite the frequency with which it occurs, this disorder remains poorly understood, and ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: I thought I had an ulcer, but my doctor ruled that out and wants to run tests. He said it could be functional dyspepsia. What causes this, and is it treatable? A: Functional ...

Functional dyspepsia or nonulcer dyspepsia, and nonerosive reflux disease (NERD) or endoscopy-negative reflux disease, are common reasons for referral to a gastroenterologist. Although there is much ...

Every day, in countless examination rooms around the world, patients are consulting their doctors about chronic stomach pain. In industrialized countries, medical evaluation usually uncovers no ...

In a recent study published in the journal Neurogastroenterology, researchers examine the prevalence of post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) and post-infectious function dyspepsia (PI-FD) ...

Among the findings of three new studies, patients with functional dyspepsia were 3.25 times more likely to have disordered sleep than healthy controls; and the muscle-relaxant and antispastic drug ...

An overlap exists in the pathogenesis of FD and GP. The gut–brain axis (GBA) implicated in both disorders is influenced by visceral sensory abnormalities, gastric disaccommodation, gastric motor ...

Improvements in psychological factors, such as anxiety and sleep disturbance, were associated with improvements in functional dyspepsia symptom severity, a prospective single-center study found.

Indigestion, or dyspepsia, describes any discomfort or pain in the upper abdomen. The symptoms of dyspepsia include heartburn, early satiety, burping, gas, and nausea, among various similar ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have dealt with digestive issues for much of my 30s. Ulcers run in my family. My doctor said that while I could have an ulcer, testing could determine if it is functional dyspepsia ...