Twan Sia, Riki O Tanaka, Albert Mousad, Aditya P Narayan, Kristen Si, Leeon Bacchus, Hind Ouerghi, Aashka Patel, Arnav Patel, Evan Cunningham, Taylor Epstein, Jerry Fu, Stanley Liu, Raisa Khuda, Paige McDonald, Shibani Mallik, Joanna McNulty, Michelle Pan, John Leung
BACKGROUND: Food malabsorption and intolerance is implicated in gastrointestinal symptoms among patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Key triggers include fructose and fructan. Prior studies examined fructose and fructan malabsorption separately in IBS patients. None have concurrently assessed both within the same patient group. We aimed to investigate the association between fructose and fructan malabsorption in the same patients with IBS using hydrogen breath testing (HBT). METHODS: We retrospectively identified patients with IBS who underwent fructose and fructan HBTs and abstracted their results from the electronic medical record...
April 24, 2024: BMC Gastroenterology