Original article—alimentary tractRelationship Between Symptoms and Dietary Patterns in Patients With Functional Dyspepsia
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Subjects
Twenty FD patients (17 women, 3 men; age, 45 ± 3 y; range, 23–73 y; body mass index [BMI], 24.0 ± 0.9 kg/m2; range, 19.3–35.7 kg/m2) were recruited through advertisements in a local newspaper (n = 3) and from the endoscopy list and outpatients of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (n = 17). The patients had to have experienced postprandial fullness, bloating, epigastric pain, nausea, or vomiting for more than 3 months of at least a moderate
Eating Behavior
The number of meals was less in FD patients when compared with healthy subjects (P < .01), and in healthy subjects reflected average Australian eating habits of one main meal per day. There were no other significant differences (Table 1). There was also no difference in the total weight, carbohydrate, protein, or alcohol content of foods consumed, or the percentage of macronutrient distribution, although fat and energy intake tended to be less in the patients (P = .1) (Table 2), the time
Discussion
We formally evaluated eating behavior in FD patients and healthy subjects and the relationships between symptoms with food intake. The major findings in FD patients are as follows: (1) symptoms are related to food intake, specifically, fullness with both fat and energy intake and bloating with fat intake; (2) the number of full meals consumed is less, with no differences in the number of other eating episodes, or the weight or macronutrient content consumed; (3) fat and energy intake tended to
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Ms Nancy Briggs for her assistance with the statistical analysis.
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Conflicts of interest The authors disclose the following: Amelia Pilichiewicz was supported by a Dawes Postgraduate Scholarship provided by the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Christine Feinle-Bisset was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Career Development Award. The study was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia project grant 242802 (2003−2005) and a Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Committee Project Grant in 2002.