Papers of the Week

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is most demanding public health problem of 21 century. Uncontrolled diabetes may cause complications affecting any part of gut from mouth to rectum presenting as vomiting, nausea, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhoea. The aim of this study was to compare levels of oxidative stress and inflammatory markers in small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) positive and negative diabetic patients.