Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics: Functional dyspepsia is characterised by troublesome early satiety, fullness, or epigastric pain or burning. It can easily be overlooked as the symptoms overlap with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome. It affects 10% of the population and is more prevalent in women....

Dyspepsia is defined as having one or more symptoms of epigastric pain, burning, postprandial fullness, or early satiation. Bloating and nausea often coexist with dyspepsia but are nonspecific and are thus not included in its definition. Heartburn is also excluded from diagnostic symptom criteria for dyspepsia since it is thought to primarily...