Fiber and colorectal diseases: Separating fact from fiction

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 31, 2007, Pages 4161-4167

  Tan, Kok Yang ^a   Seow Choen, Francis ^b  

^a ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b MOUNT ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Constipation; Diverticulosis; Fiber; Hemmorhoids; Irritable bowel syndrome; Physiology

Indexed keywords

BULKING AGENT; ISPAGULA; LACTULOSE; PECTIN; PLACEBO;

ANUS DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY FIBER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; GUAR; HEMORRHOID; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; MEGACOLON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM POLYP; SMALL INTESTINE ABSORPTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOLVULUS;

EID: 34548500795     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i31.4161     Document Type: Editorial

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