BACKGROUND We have shown that bran exacerbates irritable bowel syndrome symptoms in a large proportion of secondary-care patients. However, it is unknown if this also happens in primary-care or whether a better response to bran occurs, leading to bran failures being selected for referral to the specialist. AIMS To assess the response to bran in primary-care irritable bowel syndrome comparing ...

BACKGROUND Functional gastrointestinal disorders, including functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome and functional constipation are very common worldwide. OBJECTIVE This research aims to estimate the prevalence and associated factors involved in functional gastrointestinal disorders in Chinese college and university students using the Rome III criteria. METHODS A total of 5000 studen...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: symptoms consistent with irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) are common among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in remission phase, and clinicians have difficulties in interpreting such symptoms as an ongoing disease activity or a coexistent ibs. we investigated if the assessment of fecal calprotectin (...

AIM The purpose of this study was to describe the occurrence of self report bloating and related factors in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). BACKGROUND Bloating symptoms are common in patients with IBS and have significant impact on normal daily function. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was a community-based cross-sectional survey that conducted using a valid questionnaire base...

INTRODUCTION Resilience and Psychological Wellbeing are two important concepts in adaption of patients to chronic disease conditions. GOAL To compare resilience and psychological wellbeing in women with irritable bowel syndrome and normal women. METHODS This was an analytical-comparative study. The statistical population consisted of all patients with irritable bowel syndrome visiting Imam ...

Background. Functional dyspepsia is the prototype functional gastrointestinal disorder. This study was designed to determine its prevalence, subtypes, and risk factors associated with the subtypes. Method. Patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms who presented for endoscopy were administered a questionnaire containing the functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome modules of the Rom...

Probiotics have seen widespread use for a variety of gastrointestinal problems, especially in two common disorders: irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. Since a wide variety of probiotic preparations has been used, and despite a large number of studies performed, a great deal of heterogeneity exists among them. Straightforward evidence-based recommendations for the use of pr...

Functional bowel disorders (FBDs) are functional gastrointestinal disorders with symptoms attributable to the middle or lower gastrointestinal tract. These include irritable bowel syndrome, functional bloating, functional constipation, functional diarrhea, and unspecified FBD. Increasing evidence has emerged of late that intestinal microbiota is involved in the pathogenesis of FBDs. In this rev...

The Eysenck Personality Inventory, the Middlesex Hospital questionnaire, and forearm blood-flow were used to measure aspects of psychological status in forty-one patients with the irritable bowel syndrome, who were compared in this respect with twenty-five matched psychoneurotic subjects and with a general population. The results show a positive association between psychoneurotic disorder and t...

Irritable bowel syndrome is a disorder of gut-brain interaction that leads to a significant healthcare burden worldwide. A good physician-patient relationship is fundamental in managing patients who suffer from this poorly understood chronic disease. We highlight possible reasons for breakdown in communication between physicians and irritable bowel syndrome sufferers and suggest possible ways t...