Latest IBD, IBS research from Digestive Disease Week

Researchers presented data and clinical updates at the Digestive Disease Week 2016 Annual Meeting.

Live coverage from the Healio Gastroenterology team featured news from the conference, onsite video interviews with leading experts and research implications on patient care and practice. Healio Internal Medicine presents five of the latest updates in irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease from the meeting.

Low FODMAPs linked to altered metabolome, improved IBS symptoms

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) who adhered to a low fermentable oligo-, di-, and mono-saccharides and polyols, or FODMAP, diet experienced reduced symptoms and corresponding changes in the metabolome, according to randomized controlled trial data. Read more.

IBS blood test may give physician, patient confidence in diagnosis

Mark Pimentel, MD, from Cedars Sinai Medical Center, discussed the importance of IBSchek, a new blood test for irritable bowel syndrome.

“It is important for a number of reasons: Number one, the patient gets [a] confident diagnosis; [and] number two, IBS could be an organic disease,” he said. Watch here.

Fruit may prevent inflammation in IBD patients with ileal pouch

Fruit consumption may have a protective effect against intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis by altering gut microbial composition, according to data. Read more.

Mindfulness training improved IBS symptoms, quality of life

Kirsten Tillisch, MD, from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress, discussed how Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction can improve irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms and quality of life. Watch here.

Low FODMAP diet improves QoL in IBS-D

Shanti L. Eswaran, MD, from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, discussed the results of a randomized controlled trial that showed the low fermentable oligo-, di-, and mono-saccharides and polyols, or FODMAP, diet improved health-related quality of life (QoL) among patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Watch here.