Duodenal Ulcer and Recurrent Dyspepsia. Issue 5719 (15th August 1970)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hodgkin, G. K. H.; Freedman, R.; Fuller, I.; Whewell, J.
• Is Part Of: BMJ. Volume 3:Issue 5719(1970)
• Page Start: 368
• Page End: 371
• Publication Date: 1970-08-15
• Subjects: Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Medicine; Periodicals; 610
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5719.368
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1447

Abstract

Abstract : A survey of recurrent indigestion in four general practices (19, 619 patients) showed a wide range of dyspeptic complaints. Of these 82 (4·2 per 1, 000) already had a proved ulcer and 144 (7·3 per 1, 000) had symptoms suggesting a duodenal ulcer and had either not been investigated or had previously had a normal barium meal. A duodenal ulcer was found radiologically in half the men (46 out of 95) but in only 16% of the women (8 out of 49). In 11 (25%) of the 46 men shown to have an ulcer a barium meal had been previously reported as normal. Evidence is put forward that ulcer symptoms in the large residue of patients with a normal barium meal (38 men, 29 women) were produced by a primary duodenal condition (duodenitis) of which ulcer was one complication.