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2022 Sep 30


Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol

Environmental Pollutants are Associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome in a Commercially Insured Cohort of California Residents.

Authors

Okafor PN, Dahlen A, Youssef M, Olayode A, Sonu I, Neshatian L, Nguyen L, Charu V
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2022 Sep 30.
PMID: 36202347.

Abstract

Prior studies have linked environmental pollutants with gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. Here, we quantify the relationships between seven pollutants and the zip code-level incidence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), functional dyspepsia (FD), inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in California.