Chronic constipation: A critical review
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Chronic constipation and treatment options (Review).
Chronic constipation (CC) is a highly prevalent heterogeneous disorder. Although CC is not known to be associated with the development of serious disease or with excess mortality, it considerably reduces the patients quality of life. In addition, it represents an economic burden to patients and society. The majority of patients with CC successfully manage the disorder by dietary management and ...
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*Corresponding author: Masoumeh Salari. Department of Internal Medicine, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine,Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 09155050927 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribut...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Digestive and Liver Disease
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1590-8658
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2013.03.016