Association Between Diet and Lifestyle Habits and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Case-Control Study

Overview

Journal Gut Liver

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2014 Oct 1

PMID 25266811

Citations 34

Authors

Yu-Bin Guo

Kang-Min Zhuang

Lei Kuang

Qiang Zhan

Xian-Fei Wang

Si-De Liu

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Abstract

Background/aims: Recent papers have highlighted the role of diet and lifestyle habits in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but very few population-based studies have evaluated this association in developing countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between diet and lifestyle habits and IBS.

Methods: A food frequency and lifestyle habits questionnaire was used to record the diet and lifestyle habits of 78 IBS subjects and 79 healthy subjects. Cross-tabulation analysis and logistic regression were used to reveal any association among lifestyle habits, eating habits, food consumption frequency, and other associated conditions.

Results: The results from logistic regression analysis indicated that IBS was associated with irregular eating (odds ratio [OR], 3.257), physical inactivity (OR, 3.588), and good quality sleep (OR, 0.132). IBS subjects ate fruit (OR, 3.082) vegetables (OR, 3.778), and legumes (OR, 2.111) and drank tea (OR, 2.221) significantly more frequently than the control subjects. After adjusting for age and sex, irregular eating (OR, 3.963), physical inactivity (OR, 6.297), eating vegetables (OR, 7.904), legumes (OR, 2.674), drinking tea (OR, 3.421) and good quality sleep (OR, 0.054) were independent predictors of IBS.

Conclusions: This study reveals a possible association between diet and lifestyle habits and IBS.

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