Exempel på dyspepsia

• The cost of population screening and treatment would not be recovered in reduced dyspepsia costs in the lifetime of those screened.

• These costs could be reduced substantially if knowledge about their use for different conditions related to dyspepsia would be fully utilized in clinical practice.

• A qualitative investigation of health beliefs relating to dyspepsia.

• The total sales volume of proton pump inhibitors for the group with dyspepsia exceeded 1.3 billion in 1998.

• The parasites can produce morbidity with symptoms like abdominal pain, dyspepsia and fatigue.

• During a 3-month period, nearly 30% of the adult population reported dyspepsia.

• Economic evaluation of dyspepsia management in primary care management of dyspeptic patients: 6.7 year follow up of a randomised trial.

• Symptom relief from functional dyspepsia can be achieved by antacids when the problems have a dominant element of reflux of acid into the esophagus.

• Days with dyspepsia were measured by multiplying dyspeptic episodes by the duration of episodes.

• Can the age limit for endoscopy be increased in dyspepsia patients who do not have alarm symptoms?

• Nevertheless, economic analyses could not include longterm outcome measures unless clinical studies assessing the natural history of functional dyspepsia are performed.

• Between 10% and 20% of patients with more than occasional dyspepsia have ulcers, and approximately 10% have reflux esophagitis, while less than 1% have cancer.

• Compared with the previous year, the costs for dyspepsia drugs had declined by approximately 8%.

• This has generated expectations that other causes of dyspepsia can be successfully treated in similar ways.

• The most valuable information in investigating dyspepsia comes from gastroscopic examination.