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Menstrual symptoms and pain overlap in women with irritable bowel syndrome.

Women's Health Weekly

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2004 MAR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Menstrual symptoms and pain overlap in women with irritable bowel syndrome.

According to recent research published in the journal Digestive Diseases and Sciences, "this report examines the relationships between bloating and other symptoms in young women with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), using both retrospective and daily diary measures of symptoms. Of the 195 IBS women, 147 (75%) reported retrospectively that they often feel bloated and distended. Across-women analyses of both retrospective and daily diary data show that bloating is most strongly associated with constipation, abdominal pain, and intestinal gas."

"Within-woman analyses of daily symptoms also show a strong association of bloating with abdominal pain and intestinal gas (i.e., abdominal pain and intestinal gas are higher on days when bloating is higher) but only a weak association with constipation. Bloating is strongly associated with uterine cramping and breast tenderness, but only when perimenses days are included in the analysis," noted M.M. Heitkemper and colleagues, University of ...

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