A Rome III survey of functional dyspepsia among the ethnic Malays in a primary care setting.

Backgrounds: The study aimed to survey for FD in a primary care setting in a population known to have an extremely low prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, with the hypothesis that in such a population, dyspepsia should have been relatively less common.

Methods: The Rome III FD Diagnostic Questionnaire was translated into the Malay language and later tested for reliability.