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A Diet Low in FODMAPs Reduces Symptoms in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome and A Probiotic Restores Bifidobacterium Species: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

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In a placebo-controlled study of patients with IBS, a low FODMAP diet associates with adequate symptom relief and significantly reduced symptom scores compared with placebo.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2017-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 293 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: FODMAP.

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Systematic review with meta-analysis: the efficacy of prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics and antibiotics in irritable bowel syndrome.

TL;DR: It is necessary to select patients suitable for vaginal or laparoscopic mesh placement for IBS preoperatively on the basis of prior history and once they provide informed consent for surgery.
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Food Components and Dietary Habits: Keys for a Healthy Gut Microbiota Composition.

TL;DR: The present review aimed to focus on the impact of single food components, salt, food additives, and different dietary habits (i.e., vegan and vegetarian, gluten-free, ketogenic, high sugar, low FODMAP, Western-type, and Mediterranean diets) on gut microbiota composition in order to define the optimal diet for a healthy modulation of gut microbiota.
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ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

TL;DR: This first-ever American College of Gastroenterology clinical guideline for the management of IBS recommends that a positive diagnostic strategy as compared to a diagnostic strategy of exclusion be used to improve time to initiating appropriate therapy and recommends gut-directed psychotherapy to treat global IBS symptoms.
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Validating the SF-36 health survey questionnaire: new outcome measure for primary care.

TL;DR: The SF-36 was able to detect low levels of ill health in patients who had scored 0 (good health) on the Nottingham health profile and is a promising new instrument for measuring health perception in a general population.
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Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota

TL;DR: Viewing the microbiota from an ecological perspective could provide insight into how to promote health by targeting this microbial community in clinical treatments.
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Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

TL;DR: The authors' classifications based on variation in the gut microbiome identify subsets of individuals in the general white adult population who may be at increased risk of progressing to adiposity-associated co-morbidities.
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Global Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: The prevalence of IBS varies among countries, as well as criteria used to define its presence, and women are at slightly higher risk for IBS than men.
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Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: History, Pathophysiology, Clinical Features and Rome IV.

TL;DR: This introductory article sets the stage for the remaining 17 articles that follow and offers an historical overview of the FGIDs field, differentiates FGIDs from motility and structural disorders, discusses the changes from Rome III, reviews the Rome committee process, and provides a biopsychosocial pathophysiological conceptualization of FGIDs.
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