OBJECTIVES The goals of the study were the following: 1) to determine the frequency of psychiatric disorders and irritable bowel syndrome in patients with asthma and 2) to compare the frequency of these disorders in patients with asthma to their frequency in healthy controls. INTRODUCTION Patients with asthma have a higher frequency of irritable bowel syndrome and psychiatric disorders. MET...

Intestinal epithelial barrier function is impaired in irritable bowel syndrome patients. Claudins are highly expressed in cells with tight junctions and are involved in the intestinal epithelial barrier function. The expression pattern of tight junction proteins in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome have not been fully elucidated. We therefore recruited 17 diarrhea-predominant irrita...

BACKGROUND Although little mortality is associated with irritable bowel syndrome, curative therapy does not exist and thus the economic impact of this disorder may be considerable. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was performed. Studies were included if their focus was irritable bowel syndrome, and direct and/or productivity (indirect) costs were reported. Two investigators abstr...

1. Small bowel dysmotility may be one of the clinical manifestations in Occidental patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Here we studied the characteristics of small bowel motility in Oriental patients with irritable bowel syndrome and identified the factors responsible for disturbed small bowel motility. 2. We enrolled 90 patients with irritable bowel syndrome and 45 healthy controls to the ...

BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome has been reported as more common in patients with morbid obesity than in the general population. The reason for this association is unknown. The aims of this study were to study the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome and other functional bowel disorders in patients with morbid obesity, and to search for predictors of irritable bowel syndrome. METHODS Pa...

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 ba...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal disorders which includes the majority section of general practitioners or gastroenterologists visits. the type or prevalence of clinical signs and symptoms of the syndrome may be different among males and females. we decided to assess and compare the frequency of different signs and symptoms of ibs in men a...