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Dyspepsia
(redirected from Functional dyspepsia)

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DYSPEPSIA, med. jur., contracts. A state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases; or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minor importance. Dunglison's Med. Dict. h.t.
     2. Dyspepsia is not, in general, considered as a disease which tends to shorten life, so as to make a life uninsurable; unless the complaint has become organic dyspepsia, or was of such a degree at the time of the insurance, as, by its excess, to tend to shorten life. 4 Taunt. 763.



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Tokyo, Japan, Apr 27, 2006 - (JCN) - Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma announced on April 25 that it has presented the results of the Japan Mosapride Mega-Study (JMMS), a large-scale randomized clinical trial of mosapride citrate for functional dyspepsia (FD).
Functional dyspepsia is the diagnosis that doctors often assign to people with chronic indigestion who don't have a stomach ulcer or clear signs of acid-reflux disease.
In 60% of the investigated patients, results of tests to rule out peptic ulcer disease, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, and gastric cancer are normal, and the diagnosis is functional dyspepsia (2).
 
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