Prevalence of Chronic Constipation and Chronic Diarrhea in Diabetic Individuals in the United States
| Autor: | Vivian Cheng, Jesse Katon, Anthony Lembo, Vikram Rangan, Shuji Mitsuhashi, Judy Nee, Sarah Ballou, Daniel Friedlander, Thomas Sommers, Prashant Singh, Johanna Iturrino, William Hirsch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Diarrhea Male medicine.medical_specialty National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey medicine.medical_treatment Laxative Blood sugar Renal function Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Diabetes mellitus Internal medicine medicine Prevalence Humans Young adult Aged Chronic constipation Hepatology business.industry Gastroenterology Middle Aged medicine.disease Nutrition Surveys United States Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Female business Constipation Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of gastroenterology. 114(1) |
| ISSN: | 1572-0241 |
| Popis: | Diabetic individuals commonly report disordered bowel habits. This study aims to report the prevalence and associated factors of chronic diarrhea (CD) and chronic constipation (CC) in diabetics using a nationally representative sample of US adults. Analyses were performed using data from subjects in the 2009–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dataset who completed the Bowel Health Questionnaire. The NHANES dataset provides medical comorbidities, demographics, and dietary habits of a nationally representative group of adult survey participants in the United States. CC and CD were defined by Bristol Stool Form Scale (BSFS) Types 1 & 2 and BSFS Types 6 & 7 as the “usual or most common stool type,” respectively, and frequent laxative users were also defined as having CC. Co-variables for all subjects included demographic and lifestyle factors, and co-variables evaluated only in diabetics included treatment and severity markers for diabetes. We identified 661 diabetic subjects and 4488 non-diabetic subjects. Diabetic subjects (25.8%) reported disordered bowel habits. In unadjusted analysis, CD was more prevalent in diabetics than in non-diabetics (11.2% vs. 6.0%; p |
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