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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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) ...

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 ...

The characteristics of functional heartburn remain poorly understood. Savarino et al. have now demonstrated that functional heartburn has more in common with functional dyspepsia than with nonerosive ...

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 ...

The diagnosis of functional dyspepsia necessarily implies that a diagnostic evaluation, including upper endoscopy, has been performed and that organic gastrointestinal disease has been excluded. As ...