AIM To assess the utility and efficacy of Rome I and Rome II criteria for the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in India. METHODS Patients referred with a diagnosis of IBS by general practitioners answered a questionnaire about clinical features, including those listed in the Rome I and Rome II criteria. All patients underwent investigations to determine the cause of their symptoms....

OBJECTIVE The quality of documentation of signs and symptoms and validation of the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) according to case definition criteria of Manning, Rome I and Rome II in an office setting has not been previously described. We sought to identify and validate cases of IBS based on the Manning, Rome I and Rome II diagnostic criteria in a rural practice setting. SETTI...

The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence of chronic constipation and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the symptoms and the self-reported definition of constipation. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the general community in 1999. A questionnaire comprising 21 items was developed and mailed to a random sample of 489 subjects who were aged between 18 and 65 years and w...

TO TH E ED ITO R: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common disorders in primary care and gastroenterology practices. The prevalence of IBS varies widely from 3.3% to 12.1% with diagnostic criteria even in the same population. We still do not know the true prevalence of IBS. Accurately determining the epidemiology of IBS is important to provide basis for assessing the burden of d...

introduction: dyspepsia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) and irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) are the most common gastrointestinal diseases. their prevalence is 18-30%, 25-30% and 10-15% in western communities and 8-14%, 3-7% and 3-5% in eastern countries, respectively. there is no adequate data about their prevalence in our country. the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of ...

aim : to determine the prevalence of constipation and its associated factors using rome iii criteria in iranian population. background : due to the appearance of amoxicillin-resistant h. pylori strains all over the world, the decreased efficacy of conventional amoxicillin-containing treatment regimens has become a matter of concern. patients and methods : a cross-sectional study conducted in te...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aims of this study were to investigate the proportion of clinical irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) at a tertiary hospital in China, to compare the Rome III and Rome IV criteria with regard to IBS diagnosis, to describe the agreement between the Rome III and Rome IV criteria, and to identify differences between Rome IV-positive and -negative IBS patients. METHODS A cross-...

Criteria for use in population surveys to study the epidemiology of ankylosing spondylitis were proposed at the CIOMS Symposium in Rome in 1961 (Kellgren, Jeffrey, and Ball, 1963), and a revised set of criteria were introduced at the next symposium in New York in 1966 (Bennett and Wood, 1968). The Rome and New York criteria are shown in Tables I and II respectively. The Rome criteria specify th...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most frequently observed disorders by primary care and practitioners. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of IBS using the Rome II and III criteria in the general Korean population and also to compare sociodemographic differences between subjects diagnosed by these criteria. METHODS Telephone interview surveys were ...