The prevalence of functional dyspepsia using Rome III questionnaire among chronic hepatitis C patients

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 3 Biochemical, serological and pathological characteristics of HCV patients with functional dyspepsia

Parameter	Patients with FD	Patients without FD	P-Value
Parameter	166	86	P-Value
Serum ALT
Normal	9 (45 %)	11 (55 %)	<0.04*
Elevated	157 (67.7 %)	75 (32.3 %)	<0.04*
Fibrosis score			<0.0001*
F0-F1	13 (37.1 %)	22 (62.9 %)
F2-F3	153 (70.5 %)	64 (29.5 %)
HCV RNA (PCR)			<0.2
Median	147,160	180,603
Range	(1000–2 220 000)	(800–4 080 000)

ALT alanine transaminase; FD functional dyspepsia; PCR Polymerase chain reaction
*Statistically significant

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