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Hedonic Responses to Meal Ingestion in Patients With Functional Dyspepsia and Postprandial Symptoms
Dan M Livovsky1,2, Claudia Barber1, Fernando Azpiroz1
1Digestive System Research Unit, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (Ciberehd), UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction:
It is not clear whether patients with postprandial symptoms enjoy the meal.
Methods:
Prospective trial in patients with postprandial distress syndrome and healthy controls, comparing their responses with stepwise ingestion of a comfort meal.
Results:
Healthy individuals (N = 18) enjoyed the meal and experienced digestive well-being. Despite their symptoms, some patients enjoyed the meal as much as healthy individuals (n = 9), while others did not (n = 15), and both groups experienced the same degree of early satiety, fullness, and discomfort.
Discussion:
The hedonic response to meal ingestion is preserved in a proportion of patients with postprandial distress syndrome.
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