What is the impact of functional bowel disorders in society and in the activity of the physician?
The functional bowel disorders,
which include, particularly,
I would say mainly,
irritable bowel syndrome,
that disorder with spasms, intestinal pain,
associated with alterations of going to the body:
functional constipation, functional diarrhea and bloating,
are extremely common in our population,
with a prevalence of 20-30%
of the adult population,
and, moreover, are very frequent nell'ambulatorio
both the general practitioner,
which represent, together with functional dyspepsia,
The main reason to visit, around 5-6% of all visits,
both in the gastroenterological
accounting for approximately 30-40%
of all the reasons to visit our patients.
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