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Prognosis

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Just like most of the functional gastrointestinal disorders, functional dyspepsia (FD) is a benign disorder. Its natural history is not marked by significant complications, such as peptic ulcer bleeding or perforation, and it has no mortality. In spite of this, FD is a chronic, long-lasting, and sometimes recurrent condition representing a significant symptomatic burden, causing impairment in the quality of life of the patients and high costs for society. In this chapter, natural course, prevalence, and risk of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer in FD will be analyzed.

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Buzás, G.M. (2011). Prognosis. In: Duvnjak, M. (eds) Dyspepsia in Clinical Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1730-0_12

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