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Heartburn, difficult digestion even after not particularly elaborate meals. Or a swollen and painful belly, constipation, meteorism: gastrointestinal disorders that everyone has experienced at least once and that a study conducted on over 73,000 people from 33 countries around the world confirms as widespread problems. According to the survey, published on Gastroenterology, 40 percent of adults worldwide suffer from a functional gastrointestinal disease, i.e. irritable bowel, dyspepsia (the technical term for indigestion) and the like, for which there are no objective findings from the usual diagnostic tests and therefore not there is a recognizable organic disease, although the symptoms are still troublesome.
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Similar prevalence worldwide, with small variations between countries: 49 percent of women and 37 percent of men meet the diagnostic criteria of at least one functional gastrointestinal disease – explains study coordinator Magnus Simrn of the Swedish University. of Gteborg -. The severity varies, ranging from disorders that create a slight discomfort to situations in which the quality of life is very compromised. All, however, make greater use of health resources: these patients go to the doctor more often, they use more drugs than the rest of the population. The data does not surprise Antonio Crax, professor of gastroenterology at the University of Palermo, who adds: The Covid-19 pandemic has further increased the cases: functional pathologies are a reaction to psychological distress and quarantine has exacerbated the difficulties of many, so requests for help with gastrointestinal symptoms are growing. From those who have had difficult relationships during close coexistence with partners or family members to those who have suffered from uncertainties related to work, with the constant background of the fear of the virus, quarantine was for many the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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8 September 2020 (change September 8, 2020 | 17:19)
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