Anhedonia in irritable bowel syndrome and in inflammatory bowel diseases and its relationship with abdominal pain.

Luna Carpinelli Cristina Bucci Antonella Santonicola Fabiana Zingone Pierpaolo Cavallo Paola Iovino

Published in: Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society (2019)

The level of anhedonia was higher in all patients compared to healthy controls. The more the subject is anhedonic, the higher the VAS scale for abdominal pain. This study suggests that anhedonia would need to be very carefully weighed in IBD and IBS patients.

Keyphrases

abdominal pain
end stage renal disease
irritable bowel syndrome
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors