Hiroto Miwa, Akihito Nagahara, Akihiro Asakawa, Makoto Arai, Tadayuki Oshima, Kunio Kasugai, Kazuhiro Kamada, Hidekazu Suzuki, Fumio Tanaka, Kazunari Tominaga, Seiji Futagami, Mariko Hojo, Hiroshi Mihara, Kazuhide Higuchi, Motoyasu Kusano, Tomiyasu Arisawa, Mototsugu Kato, Takashi Joh, Satoshi Mochida, Nobuyuki Enomoto, Tooru Shimosegawa, Kazuhiko Koike
BACKGROUND: Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a disorder that presents with chronic dyspepsia, which is not only very common but also highly affects quality of life of the patients. In Japan, FD became a disease name for national insurance in 2013, and has been gradually recognized, though still not satisfactory. Following the revision policy of Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE), the first version of FD guideline was revised this time. METHOD: Like previously, the guideline was created by the GRADE (grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation) system, but this time, the questions were classified to background questions (BQs, 24 already clarified issues), future research questions (FRQs, 9 issues cannot be addressed with insufficient evidence), and 7 clinical questions that are mainly associated with treatment...
February 2022: Journal of Gastroenterology