Lactulose Hydrogen Breath Test Result Is Associated with Age and Gender
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Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with high methane production during lactulose breath test.
OBJECTIVE Despite a growing interest toward the interplay between H. pylori and gastric microbiota, few data are available about this correlation. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between H. pylori infection and gas production during lactulose breath test. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data of patients undergoing both 13C-urea breath test (UBT) and lactulose breath test (LBT) und...
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1. Profa Adjunta Doutora do Departamento de Pediatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. 2. Pediatra, Mestre em Pediatria pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. A atividade da lactase é determinada por um gene localizado no cromossomo 2 e a sua atividade na vida adulta tem herança autossômica dominante, enquanto a hipolactasia é herdada de forma auto...
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Whether hydrogen and methane gas produced during lactulose breath test (LBT) are associated with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is not determined. We aimed to investigate whether hydrogen and methane on LBT are associated with IBS symptoms. Sixty-eight IBS patients meeting the Rome III criteria for IBS, and 55 healthy controls, underwent LBT. The IBS subjects recorded their customar...
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The frequency of negative hydrogen breath tests due to colonic bacterial flora which are unable to produce hydrogen was determined after oral lactulose challenge in 98 healthy Dutch schoolchildren. There was a negative result in 9.2%. The probability of a false normal lactose breath test (1:77) was calculated from these results together with those from a separate group of children with lactose ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BioMed Research International
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2314-6133,2314-6141
DOI: 10.1155/2016/1064029