Meal Eating Characteristics of Patients with Gastroparesis

Background Patients with gastroparesis often consume only small meals due to early satiety. Aims (1) Describe meal eating characteristics of patients with gastroparesis; (2) Relate meal eating characteristics to symptoms, gastric emptying (GE), and body weight. Methods Patients with gastroparesis fi...

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Published in:Digestive diseases and sciences 2022-08, Vol.67 (8), p.3872-3880
Main Authors: Hagopian, Garo G., Johnson, Kathleen P., Shahsavari, Dariush, Parkman, Henry P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Biochemistry
Body weight
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Meals
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nausea
Oncology
Original Article
Surveys
Transplant Surgery
Type 2 diabetes
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Summary:Background Patients with gastroparesis often consume only small meals due to early satiety. Aims (1) Describe meal eating characteristics of patients with gastroparesis; (2) Relate meal eating characteristics to symptoms, gastric emptying (GE), and body weight. Methods Patients with gastroparesis filled out questionnaires including Patient Assessment of Upper GI Symptoms (PAGI-SYM), and questionnaire about meal habits and body weight. Patients underwent gastric emptying scintigraphy. Results Of 192 gastroparesis patients, 93% endorsed early satiety (ES) with severity of 3.7 ± 1.5 (scored from 0–5) and 93% endorsed postprandial fullness (PPF) with severity of 3.9 ± 1.3. Time spent consuming meals averaged 13.6 ± 17.7 min. Main reasons patients stopped eating were fullness (61%), nausea (48%), and abdominal pain (31%). Time spent eating correlated inversely with severity of nausea (r = −0.18, p  
ISSN:0163-2116
1573-2568
DOI:10.1007/s10620-021-07190-0