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- who: Michael Camilleri MD from the Division have published the research work: Management Options for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: Currently, the treatment of IBS remains focused on treating the patient's most troublesome symptom.
- how: In a systematic review and meta-analysis23 that included 906 patients with IBS in 14 RCTs (most of low methodological quality) there was only modest improvement of symptoms with fiber (NNT of 10) and the beneficial effect was limited to psyllium (which was tested in 499 patients in 7 studies) with an NNT of . . .
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