@RomeFoundation@DDrossman@LinChangMD We would also liked to thank Dr. Claudia Defilipi President of the Organizing Comm of the Panamerican GI Congress for all her help and hospitality and her outstanding organization
@RomeFoundation@DDrossman@LinChangMD Great sessions of The Rome Foundation discussing MDCP based cases on OIC, IBS-D with ARFID and Post COVID-19 Funtional Diarrhea
Among subjects not reporting and not comprehending the expressions abdominal “inflammation”/“swelling”/distension, 31.8% and 68.4%, resoectively, reported bloating and/or distension by the pictograms
Similar to our NGM valudation study among general patients from a GI clinic and those from IBS, we have now found that the pictograms are more effective than verbal descriptors for investigating these symptoms in Spanish
Another paper from the Rome Foundation Global Epi Study, has been published. Our bloating/distension pictogram study in the general population in Mexico
There are between country differences, higher IBS-D and functional duarrhea in Argentina, esophageal and gastroduodenal in Brazil, functional heartburn and OIC in Mexico