Brain Imaging, Heart Rate Variability and Serum Fatty Acid in Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02179905

SKH-8302-102-DR-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to analyze the relationship between brain structure, the heart rate variability and the serum fatty acid component of the irritable bowel syndrome patients.

Full description

Several studies showed that the gray matter and white matter of the brain related to the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome patients.

The investigators study is to analyse the relationship between thickness of cortex of irritable patients, the sympathetic tone and the serum fatty acid component of the irritable bowel syndrome patients. It is to clarify the mechanism of irritable bowel syndrome, whether the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome are related to the thickness of cortex or inflammation status of the body.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female
• between 20 and 50 years old
• meet Rome III criteria

Exclusion criteria

• colon and small intestinal disease
• psychiatric disease patients
• patients received major surgery in the past 5 years
• diabetic patients
• patients with metal implant

Trial design

69 participants in 1 patient group

Irritable bowel syndrome, Control