Data from a large retrospective cohort study indicate that the occurrence of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is significantly greater in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) compared with those without IBS.
Researchers used data from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database from the years 2016 to 2019 (Biomedicines 2023;11[10]:2594). More than 1,250,000 patients admitted to a hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of IBS were included in the study. Among the