New insights into functional dyspepsia: further evidence for postprandial distress syndrome as a distinct disease

Functional dyspepsia, characterised by unexplained chronic early satiety (inability to finish a normal sized meal), postprandial fullness (often described by patients as bloating), and epigastric pain or burning, is a common problem affecting as many as one in five individuals, and is responsible for considerable symptom burden and health-care usage. 1 Talley NJ Ford AC Functional Dyspepsia. N Engl J Med. 2015; 373: 1853-1863 Crossref PubMed...