Белорусский государственный медицинский университет, Минск, Беларусь The prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome among gastrointestinal diseases Распространенность синдрома раздраженного кишечника среди желудочно-кишечных заболеваний ______________________ Abstract __________________________________________________________________________ Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorders in which recurrent abdominal pain is associated with defecation or a change in bowel habits. <...> IBS patients had signifi cantly higher levels of psychological distress, pain severity and maladaptive pain coping strategies, and lower QoL than ulcerative colitis patients in some studies. <...> In this retrospective data we analyzed 6466 GI patients’ histories of outpatients who visited the gastroenterologist in Minsk Consulting Diagnostic Centre in 2008. 1698 patients with IBS were selected. <...> Criteria for making a diagnosis were Rome III criteria for the diagnosis of IBS and Manning criteria. <...> It was revealed that IBS is a wide spread functional bowel disorder and its proportion among GI diseases was 26.03%. <...> IBS occurred in all age groups with a small diff erence in the frequency of subtypes by age, mainly at the overage age. <...> Ключевые слова: синдром раздраженного кишечника, подтипы СРК, желудочно-кишечные заболевания, распространенность. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 566 «Cardiology in Belarus» 2017, volume 9, № 3 Республиканская научно-практическая конференция с международным участием «Актуальные вопросы кардиологии: междисциплинарный консенсус при коморбидной патологии» INTRODUCTION Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorders in which recurrent abdominal pain is associated with defecation or a change in bowel habits. <...> IBS occurs in all age groups, including children and the elderly, with no diff erence seen in the frequency of subtypes by age. <...> Those aged over 65 years are also likely to have had their symptoms for longer than 1 year before they consult, whilst those under 65 years report signifi cantly shorter duration of symptoms [2]. <...> IBS patients had signifi cantly higher levels of psychological distress, pain severity and maladaptive pain coping strategies (catastrophization), and lower QoL than ulcerative colitis patients in two studies in Hungary [3, 4]. <...> IBS is classifi ed into 3 main subtypes according to the predominant disorder in bowel habits: IBS with predominant constipation (IBS-C): More <...>