Postgraduate medicine
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Postgraduate medicine · Apr 2022
Patients with ankylosing spondylitis have high risk of irritable bowel syndrome. A long-term nationwide population-based cohort study.
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease, might carry a high risk of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) due to abnormal gut microbiota or inflammatory reaction. ⋯ This nationwide population-based cohort study showed that patients with AS have higher risks of IBS than those of the non-AS comparison group.