Seiji Futagami, Takaomi Kessoku, Yuki Kasai, Takuma Higurashi, Atsushi Nakajima, Shuhei Agawa, Hiroshi Yamawaki, Mayu Habiro, Nobue Ueki, Iori Sanada, Mariko Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamato, Takatsugu Yamamoto, Yusuke Takasaki, Koichi Ito, Mariko Hojo, Hiroyuki Isayama, Kewin Tien Ho Siah, Kok-Ann Gwee
BACKGROUND AND AIM: To clarify whether there were any significant differences in clinical symptoms and eating patterns between functional dyspepsia (FD) patients and FD with pancreatic enzyme abnormalities (FD-P) patients as refractory FD, we compared these factors in multicenter studies in Singapore and Japan. METHODS: One hundred ninety-eight consecutive patients presenting with FD (n = 88), FD-P patients (n = 81) based on Rome III classification and controlled group (n = 39) recruited from six institutions in Singapore and Japan...
August 2022: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology