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- Title
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: a framework for understanding irritable bowel syndrome.
- Authors
Lin, Henry C
- Abstract
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which affects 11% to 14% of the population, is a puzzling condition with multiple models of pathophysiology including altered motility, visceral hypersensitivity, abnormal brain-gut interaction, autonomic dysfunction, and immune activation. Although no conceptual framework accounts for all the symptoms and observations in IBS, a unifying explanation may exist since 92% of these patients share the symptom of bloating regardless of their predominant complaint.
- Publication
JAMA, 2004, Vol 292, Issue 7, p852
- ISSN
1538-3598
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.292.7.852