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Every day, in countless examination rooms around the world, patients are consulting their doctors about chronic stomach pain. In industrialized countries, medical evaluation usually uncovers no structural cause for chronic upper abdominal pain or discomfort; the majority of patients have functional, or nonulcer, dyspepsia. Although some general principles are useful in managing functional dyspepsia, the therapies that have been assessed to date provide little hope of a cure for this perplexing disorder.

Most patients with dyspepsia are first evaluated by primary care practitioners, who should elicit a detailed history to identify patients whose symptoms may be attributable to medication use, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Longstreth is a gastroenterologist at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine — both in San Diego.

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