Diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
An Analytical Study to Test the Validity of the New Questionnaire for the Diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
... This is to certify that this dissertation entitled ‘AN ANALYTICAL STUDY TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF THE NEW QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME’ submitted by Dr. J. ...
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Risk of inflammatory bowel disease following a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome
... the diagnosis of IBD in military popula- tions, as this and similar diagnoses can result in medical discharge, [6] and military personnel who are motivated to deploy may be of a type that are less likely to seek ...
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Validation of the Rome III criteria for the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome in secondary care
... a diagnosis of IBS, although the application of other existing symptom-based diagnostic criteria yielded broadly similar LRs, with the exception of the negative LR for the Rome I criteria, which was ...
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Diagnosis and treatment of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome
... Abstract: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common gastrointestinal dis- orders ...diarrhea, irritable bowel ...
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Diet in irritable bowel syndrome
... The basic description of NCGS [67] is the same as that of IBS. Both NCGS and IBS patients have the same gastro- intestinal and extra-gastrointestinal symptoms that are triggered by wheat consumption. NCGS patients have ...
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The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome
... The validity of these diagnostic criteria has been studied; however, this has not been done using conventional mea- surement of sensitivity and specificity in general population samples because there is no gold standard ...
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The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome
... Rome criteria also recommend that IBS should be a positive diagnosis but are more restrictive than the Manning criteria. When assessing the epidemiology of IBS, the diagnostic criteria employed are important to ...
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Homeopathy for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
... IBS is characterised by recurrent symptoms (i.e. abdominal pain or discomfort, bloating, constipation, or diarrhoea) that indicate a dysfunctional gastrointestinal tract rather than an organic change or specific ...
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Genetics of irritable bowel syndrome
... Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most commonly di- agnosed functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) with a worldwide prevalence of 10–20 %, predominantly among women ...in bowel habits ...
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Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is associated with irritable bowel syndrome and is independent of proton pump inhibitor usage
... breath tests [1 – 4]. However the gold standard of diagnosis is the culture of the content of the proximal part of the small intestine. In a recent survey of our group, 320 consecutive patients undergoing upper GI ...
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A randomized controlled trial of lifestyle self monitoring for irritable bowel syndrome in female nursing school students
... In Japan and China, we conducted comparative studies on lifestyles and IBS for nursing and medical school students who were busy and had a relatively high amount of stress related to their daily duties [6,7]. The ...
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Prevalence and predictors of irritable bowel syndrome in patients with morbid obesity: a cross-sectional study
... anxiety or depression (present/absent), and at IHT-G if they had sought professional help for psychiatric disor- ders (present/absent). At both centres, subjects with a diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders ...
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Tegaserod in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with constipation as the prime symptom
... Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic and episodic gastrointestinal (GI) ...altered bowel function, with the predominant bowel symptom determining the subclassification of IBS: ...
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Patients with longstanding ulcerative colitis in remission do not have more irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms than controls
... UC diagnosis, to establish clinical remission and to confirm that the col- onoscopy was performed in the surveillance ...in bowel habits the year before the endoscopy) and that the colonoscopy was performed ...
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Evaluation of the irritable bowel syndrome severity index in Japanese male patients with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea
... inflammatory bowel disease; history or current evidence of ischemic colitis, concurrent infec- tious enteritis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, or other diseases that may affect gastrointestinal transit or ...
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Irritable bowel syndrome
... ruled out before the diagnosis of IBS. The division of IBS patients into subtypes is useful for clinical practice and symptomatic treatment, but it is common for IBS patients to switch from one subtype to another ...
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Bowel Pattern in General Population and in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
... In many situations, a therapeutic trial can be undertaken before further diagnostic studies are done and this would depend on the symptom subtype and its severity. For constipation: a trial with dietary fiber, or an ...
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TREATMENT OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME: A REVIEW
... Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is referred to as a gastrointestinal (GI) syndrome, which is differentiated by altered bowel habits and chronic abdominal pain, and no organic cause is ...
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Irritable bowel syndrome: Is it "irritable brain" or "irritable bowel"?
... psychiatric diagnosis but were similar in above aspects when compared with peptic ulcer patients with psychiatric diagnosis Remarks: Stress and personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion has been ...
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Psychiatric aspects of irritable bowel syndrome
... 77±3 and 89±3 respectively), similar findings had been reached by Althaus A; et al (2016), who found higher somatic symptom burden and increased level of hypochondriasis in IBS patients. Furthermore, Mousavinasab SM; et ...
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