Global prevalence of and risk factors for irritable bowel syndrome: a meta-analysis.

By R. Lovell, A. Ford. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2012

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Subfields: Gastroenterology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• The epidemiology of irritable bowel syndrome (2014, background): “Considerable heterogeneity exists between studies.(38) Some of this is explained through the differences in study methodology and sampling, as described above, and the use of different diagnostic criteria to define IBS, rather than a biological marker, may also account for some of the variation.”
• Bowel Disorders. (2016, background): “8%) based on a meta-analysis of 80 studies involving 260,960 subjects.(1) The incidence of IBS is estimated to be 1.”