Ami D. Sperber, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Douglas A. Drossman, Uday C. Ghoshal et al.
BACKGROUND & AIMS Although functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), now called disorders of gut-brain interaction, have major economic effects on healthcare systems and adversely affect quality of life, little is known about their global prevalence and distribution. We investigated the prevale...
Uday C. Ghoshal, Ujjala Ghoshal, M. Masudur Rahman, Akash Mathur et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Because acute infectious gastroenteritis may cause post-infection irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 affects gastrointestinal (GI) tract, coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) may cause post-infection-functional G...
D. N. Guha Mazumder, Uday C. Ghoshal, Jayanta Saha, Amal Santra et al.
INTRODUCTION: Chronic arsenic toxicity producing various clinical manifestations is currently epidemic in West Bengal, India, Bangladesh, and other regions of the world. Animal studies have indicated that 2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid can be used as an oral chelating agent. A prospective, double-blind...
Uday C. Ghoshal, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Ujjala Ghoshal, Asha Misra et al.
In the clinical setting, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a frequent, but under-diagnosed entity. SIBO is linked to various gastrointestinal (GI) and non-GI disorders with potentially significant morbidity. The optimal management of SIBO is undefined while there is a lack of published...
M. Masudur Rahman, Uday C. Ghoshal, Krish Ragunath, Gareth Jenkins et al.
Health research is essential for improving global health, health equity, and economic development. There are vast differences in the disease burden, research budget allocation, and scientific publications between the developed and the low-middle-income countries, which are the homes of 85% of the wo...
M. Masudur Rahman, Sanjiv Mahadeva, Uday C. Ghoshal
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder, common in clinic and in the community. It has a significant impact on both society and patients' quality of life. The epidemiology, clinical presentation, and management of IBS may vary in different geographical regions due to di...
Masudur M. Rahman, Uday C. Ghoshal, Shamima Sultana, Md. Golam Kibria et al.
BACKGROUND: Postinfection irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) and functional dyspepsia (PI-FD), though reported from the temperate countries, have not been studied in the tropics; PI-malabsorption syndrome (MAS), which mimics PI-IBS, is reported from the tropics. No report till date on PI-IBS excluded...
Rupa Banerjee, Partha Pal, Ida Hilmi, Uday C. Ghoshal et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is emerging in the newly industrialized countries of South Asia, South-East Asia, and the Middle East, yet epidemiological data are scarce. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study of IBD demographics, disease phenotype, and treatment across ...
Sabrina Xin Zi Quek, Evelyn Xiu Ling Loo, Alla Demutska, Chun En Chua et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Gastrointestinal manifestations of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may mimic irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and social distancing measures may affect IBS patients negatively. We aimed to study the impact of COVID-19 on respondents with self-reported IBS. METHODS...
Ami D. Sperber, Serhat Bor, Xuicai Fang, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Study (RFGES) assessed the prevalence, burden, and associated factors of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI) in 33 countries around the world. Achieving worldwide sampling necessitated use of two different surveying methods: In-perso...
M. Masudur Rahman, Uday C. Ghoshal, Golam Kibria, Nigar Sultana et al.
INTRODUCTION: Functional dyspepsia (FD), although commoner than organic dyspepsia (OD) in-hospital studies, community data, particularly from rural areas, are lacking. We performed a rural community study in Bangladesh with the primary aims to evaluate (i) the prevalence of uninvestigated dyspepsia ...
Uday C. Ghoshal, M. Masudur Rahman, Nitesh Pratap, Asha Misra et al.
BACKGROUND: Although the Rome IV criteria are the most recent criteria to diagnose irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), their sensitivity has been shown to be low in Chinese and Western populations. There are scanty data comparing the Rome III and Rome IV criteria in diagnosis of IBS in the Indian and Ba...
Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Uday C. Ghoshal, AHM Rowshon, Faruque Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), diagnosed by symptom-based criteria due to lack of biomarkers, need translatedvalidated questionnaires in different languages. As Bengali, the mother tongue of Bangladesh and eastern India, is the seventh most spoken language in the wor...
Rupa Banerjee, Partha Pal, Ida Hilmi, Md Mehdi Rahman et al.
Abstract Background Mental health is an important yet most neglected part of IBD care more so in developing countries.Left unaddressed, psychological factors can portend worse disease outcomes and poor quality of life. Caregiver burden including QOL and coping strategies have not been evaluated. Met...
Masudur M. Rahman, Uday C. Ghoshal, Shamima Sultana, Md. Golam Kibria et al.
Introduction: Post-infection irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) and functional dyspepsia (PI-FD) have been reported mostly from temperate countries. In contrast, post-infection malabsorption syndrome (PI-MAS), which may mimic PI-IBS, has been reported commonly from the tropics. No report on PI-IBS ex...