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Gastro psychology
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Functional gastrointestinal disorder
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Functional heartburn is heartburn of unknown cause.[1] It is associated with other functional gastrointestinal disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and is the primary cause of lack of improvement post treatment with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).[1] PPIs are however still the primary treatment with response rates in about 50% of people.[1] The diagnosis is based upon the Rome III criteria of 1) burning retrosternal discomfort 2) absence of GERD as the cause 3) no esophageal motility disorders.[1] It was found to be present in 22.3% of Canadians in one survey.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Fass R (January 2009). Functional heartburn: what it is and how to treat it. Gastrointest. Endosc. Clin. N. Am. 19 (1): 23–33, v.
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