The Transition From Rome III to Rome IV Irritable Bowel Syndrome: What We Gain and Lose.
The Transition From Rome III to Rome IV Irritable Bowel Syndrome: What We Gain and Lose.
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从罗马 III 到罗马 IV 肠易激综合症的转变:我们得到和失去的。
DOI:
10.1016/j.cgh.2021.06.032
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发表时间:
2022
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Chang,Lin
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Shin,Andrea;Chang,Lin
In a longitudinal survey study, Goodoory et al. 1 compared the natural history of individuals with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) defined by Rome IV criteria2 and those defined by their predecessor, Rome III. 3 Prior cross-sectional studies have demonstrated that the patient populations defined by these two separate iterations of the Rome criteria differ. The authors of the current study previously showed that patients with IBS who met Rome IV criteria had more severe symptoms than those who only met Rome III criteria. 4 These observations were not unexpected as the Rome IV criteria were modified from Rome III to increase the abdominal pain threshold from at least 3 days per month to one day per week based on the 90th percentile for symptom frequencies among the general population. 5 In addition, the term abdominal discomfort was removed. Goodoory et al. built on prior observations to demonstrate that these differences were durable and translated into higher healthcare utilization, increased symptom severity, and poorer psychological health in patients with Rome IV-defined IBS over a 12-month period. In their analysis, most individuals belonging to the Rome IV group satisfied both Rome IV and III criteria. Conversely, the Rome III group included only those who met Rome III criteria, but not Rome IV. However, it should be acknowledged that as a consequence, the study compared a Rome III group that had been enriched for pain severity or frequency (ie Rome IV criteria) and a less severe Rome III group in which those with higher pain frequencies were effectively removed. Only 17 patients satisfied Rome IV criteria without satisfying Rome III to imply that changing the language to specify that pain symptoms could be “related to” rather than “improved with” defecation and the lack of the abdominal discomfort requirement had a relatively minimal overall impact. These findings are consistent with the results of previous studies that showed that most of the difference in meeting Rome III vs Rome IV was due to the change in the frequency threshold for abdominal pain. 5 Although the concluding message of the current study is similar,