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Irritable bowel syndrome and dyspepsia in the general population: Overlap and lack of stability over time
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The separation of functional gastrointestinal symptoms into dyspepsia, its subgroups, and IBS may be inappropriate.About:
This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1995-09-01. It has received 679 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Manning criteria & Irritable bowel syndrome.read more
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Functional gastroduodenal disorders
Jan Tack,Nicholas J. Talley,Michael Camilleri,Gerald Holtmann,Pinjin Hu,Juan R. Malagelada,Vincenzo Stanghellini +6 more
TL;DR: A consensus-based approach was applied, supplemented by input from international experts who reviewed the report, and a dyspepsia subgroup classification is proposed for research purposes, based on the predominant (most bothersome) symptom.
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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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Systematic review of the comorbidity of irritable bowel syndrome with other disorders: what are the causes and implications?
TL;DR: Multivariate statistical analyses suggest that gastrointestinal disorders, psychiatric disorders, and nongastrointestinal somatic disorders are distinct disorders and not manifestations of a common somatization disorder, but their strong comorbidity suggests a common feature important to their expression, which is most likely psychological.
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Guidelines on the irritable bowel syndrome: mechanisms and practical management
Robin C. Spiller,Robin C. Spiller,Qasim Aziz,Francis Creed,Anton Emmanuel,Lesley A. Houghton,Pali Hungin,Roger Jones,D Kumar,Greg Rubin,Nigel Trudgill,Peter J. Whorwell +11 more
TL;DR: Better ways of identifying which patients will respond to specific treatments are urgently needed for the assessment and management of adult patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
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The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome.
TL;DR: The nature of the diagnostic process for IBS and how this impacts epidemiological measurements are discussed and there is no evidence that IBS is associated with an increased mortality risk.
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Epidemiology in Medicine
TL;DR: The core of the subject remains essentially simple, and a good epidemiological study should be capable of describing in such a way that all who are interested in the cause of disease can follow the argument and decide for themselves the validity of the conclusions as mentioned in this paper.
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On the methods and theory of reliability.
TL;DR: This paper reviews the most frequently used and misused reliability measures appearing in the mental health literature and suggests some suitable reliability measures to be used.
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Towards positive diagnosis of the irritable bowel
TL;DR: It is concluded that a careful history can increase diagnostic confidence and reduce the amount of investigation in many patients with chronic abdominal pain.
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Dyspepsia and dyspepsia subgroups: A population-based study
TL;DR: Dyspepsia is very common in the community and the majority have ulcerlike symptoms, but there is such overlap among the dyspepsian subgroups that a classification based on symptoms alone in uninvestigated patients may not be useful.
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Epidemiology of colonic symptoms and the irritable bowel syndrome
TL;DR: More than one third of an unselected middle-aged population reported chronic abdominal pain or disturbed defecation, and more than one in six had symptoms compatible with the irritable bowel syndrome.