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Humanos , Dispepsia/epidemiologia , Psicometria/métodos , Perfil de Impacto da Doença , Indicadores de Qualidade de Vida , Fatores de Risco , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Although health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure instruments in functional dyspepsia (FD) have been available for many years, as in other functional gastrointestinal disorders, their real application in clinical practice, beyond therapeutic studies, is unknown. For first time, the new Rome IV diagnostic criteria include the consideration of symptom severity enough to impact on usual patients' activities. A new focus on the management of this entity is proposed, therefore we should carefully revise the HRQoL measures and define its real role in our clinical practice.
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Dispepsia , Qualidade de Vida , Gastroenteropatias , Humanos , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Growing research on the human microbiome, even beyond the gastrointestinal area, is not surprising mainly due to significant advances in study methods. Current reporting in this area is so intensive that clinicians are changing the unsuitable "bacterial flora" expression for more appropriate terms such as "microbiota" (the entire microbial community colonizing an ecologic niche), "microbiome" (their collective genome), or "dysbiosis" (microbial composition imbalance with respect to the normatively considered pattern). Since the diseases involved in the altered microbiota hypothesis are increasing, its implication for cancer should come as no surprise to us.
