Irritable bowel syndrome: Relations with functional, mental, and somatoform disorders

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 6024-6030

  Hausteiner Wiehle, Constanze ^a,b   Henningsen, Peter ^b  

^a BG UNFALLKLINIK MURNAU   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bodily distress syndrome; Functional somatic syndrome; Interface; Irritable bowel syndrome; Somatic symptom disorder; Somatoform disorder

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EATING DISORDER; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; JAW DISEASE; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; COMPLICATION; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MENTAL DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901503693     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i20.6024     Document Type: Article

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