Demographics and clinical features associated with abnormal small bowel motility in systemic sclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The small bowel is affected in up to 50% of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients, and some patients experience severe complications. Our aim was to use specific statistical methods to compare demographic and clinical features of SSc patients with and without abnormal small bowel to better characterize patients at risk for this complication.

Methods

SSc patients with gastrointestinal symptoms were prospectively enrolled and underwent a scintigraphy-based whole gut transit (WGT) study. A cross-sectional analysis was performed comparing clinical features between patients with and without abnormal small bowel transit by WGT. Univariate logistic regression models and multivariable models were used to examine the relationship between clinical features and abnormal small bow

SUBMITTER: Cheah JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12048077 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature