UPDATES ON MANAGEMENT OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
UPDATES ON MANAGEMENT OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
UPDATES ON MANAGEMENT OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
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Genetic predisposition• Similar symptoms tends to run in family• Differences in inherited patterns of serotoninprocessing at the neuronal level• Study suggested that IBS is more common inpatients who have a first degree relatives whohas IBS symptoms• Another study showed that IBS is more commonin monozygotic than dizygotic twins, butpresence of a parent who had IBS was even morepredicitve for subsequent development of IBS