title: [Dyspepsia among the principal diseases of the upper tract of the digestive apparatus. Analysis of the symptom in 700 cases subjected to gastroduodenoscopy].
abstract: 700 cases subjected to endoscopic examination were investigated to find the relationship between dyspepsia and personal characteristics, lifestyle, family and pathological history and formulated diagnosis. Dyspepsia is taken to represent: epigastric heaviness following meals, prolonged and difficult digestion accompanied by the sensation of slow gastric emptying and fullness. Dyspepsia occurs with equal frequency in both series and is more common during the first decades of life. Dyspepsia is not affected by whether or not the patient lives in the town or the country, smokes, drinks significant amounts of alcohol or coffee. Neither a family history of gastroduodenal or intestinal complaints or gall bladder stones or chronic liver diseases have many bearing on dyspepsia. An attempt to connect endoscopic diagnosis with dyspepsia had no positive result. Dyspepsia was observed with the same frequency in subjects free from upper digestive tract diseases, subjects with organic disease and subjects with functional diseases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D003069:Coffee; D004064:Digestive System / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004384:Duodenoscopy; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012907:Smoking; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D003069:Coffee
vernacular_title: La dispepsia nelle principali malattie del tratto superiore dell'apparato digerente. Analisi del sintomo in 700 casi sottoposti a gastroduodenoscopia.