Association between self-reported vegetarian diet and the irritable bowel syndrome in the French NutriNet cohort

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Buscail, Camille ^a,b   Sabate, Jean Marc ^b   Bouchoucha, Michel ^b   Torres, Marion J ^a   Allès, Benjamin ^a   Hercberg, Serge ^a,b   Benamouzig, Robert ^b   Julia, Chantal ^a,b  

^a COMUE Sorbonne Paris Cité ^*  (France)

^b AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; DIET THERAPY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; VEGETARIAN DIET; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET, VEGETARIAN; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 85028539620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183039     Document Type: Article

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