PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTIC OF PATIENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA IN ADEN, YEMEN 2023-2024

Functional dyspepsia (FD) is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders and imposes social and economic burden worldwide and was defined by the absence of peptic ulcer disease on investigation. The Room criteria have been the most widely used criteria for defining dyspepsia and have divided functional dyspepsia into postprandial distress syndrome (PDS), characterized by postprandial fullness and early satiation, and epigastric pain syndrome (EPS), characterized by epigastric pain or burning. This study is aimed to identify the prevalence and characteristics of patients with functional dyspepsia. This study was considered a descriptive cross-sectional study, was performed in the period between Aug 2023 and Jan2024. A total of 105 patients were conducted at Gastroenterology private clinic diagnosed as functional dyspepsia based on endoscopic findings and questionnaires with Rome III criteria and rapid ureas test for Helicobacter pylori infection. The mean (± SD) age was 38.77(±15.03) years, and 55 patients (52.4%) were female with majority (48.6%) of occupation were house wife. 47 (44.8 %) of resident patients were from Lahj and (30.5%) patients were secondary school educational level. Anxiety, Depression, stress life and emotional events were with 26(24.8 %) patients and 63(60%),37(35.2) were with Kat chewing and NASIDs intake risk factor respectively. The proportion of H. pylori seropositive was 47 patients (44.8 %) and most common upper endoscopic findings 36 (34.3%) were with mild scattered gastritis. Majority of patients 84 (80%) met the criteria of FD subtypes overlapping EPS/PDS. The prevalence was higher in-house wife female sex and overlapping subtype was quite common FD. H. pylori positive infection, Kat chewing, psychological and NASIDs intake presumed risk factors.