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Review
. 2011 Mar;40(1):1-10.
doi: 10.1016/j.gtc.2010.12.006.

Epidemiology of IBS

Rok Seon Choung  1 , G Richard Locke 3rd
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Review

Epidemiology of IBS

Rok Seon Choung et al. Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2011 Mar.

Abstract

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder. Because not everyone needs to seek care, population-based studies are needed to truly understand the epidemiology of IBS. About 10% of the population has IBS at any one time and about 200 people per 100,000 will receive an initial diagnosis of IBS over the course of a year. IBS patients are more frequently younger in age, and a female predominance has been observed in Western countries and tertiary care settings. IBS patients commonly report overlapping upper GI, as well as a variety of non-GI, complaints.

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