Post-infection functional gastrointestinal disorders following coronavirus disease-19: A case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

Because acute infectious gastroenteritis may cause post-infection irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 affects gastrointestinal (GI) tract, coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) may cause post-infection-functional GI disorders (FGIDs). We prospectively studied the frequency and spectrum of post-infection-FGIDs among COVID-19 and historical healthy controls and the risk factors for its development.

Methods

Two hundred eighty patients with COVID-19 and 264 historical healthy controls were followed up at 1 and 3 months using translated validated Rome Questionnaires for the development of chronic bowel dysfunction (CBD), dyspeptic symptoms, and their overlap and at 6-month for IBS, uninvestigated

SUBMITTER: Ghoshal UC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8657345 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature