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Area of Science:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Background:

  • The Rome III criteria classify functional dyspepsia (FD) into epigastric pain syndrome (EPS) and postprandial distress syndrome (PDS) based on symptom frequency.
  • The relationship between symptom frequency and severity in FD requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the frequency and severity of dyspeptic symptoms in FD patients.
  • To analyze the relationship between symptom frequency and severity within different FD subgroups.

Main Methods:

  • Functional dyspepsia patients (n=421) completed questionnaires assessing FD symptom frequency and severity.
  • Spearman correlation and concordance correlation coefficient (ρc) were used to analyze the relationship between symptom severity and frequency.

Main Results:

  • Overall, FD symptom severity and frequency showed good concordance across all symptoms in the cohort.
  • In the EPS subgroup, epigastric pain severity and frequency showed a poor correlation (r=.28; ρc=0.07).
  • PDS and overlap EPS-PDS subgroups demonstrated good correlation for most symptoms, with exceptions for epigastric pain in the overlap group.

Conclusions:

  • For PDS patients, assessing either symptom frequency or severity is sufficient to identify the symptom pattern.
  • For EPS patients, both symptom frequency and severity should be evaluated independently due to their distinct nature.