Giovanni Barbara

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus
observational 2026
Internal and emergency medicine ·doi:10.1007/s11739-026-04375-1

Abdominal pain is the hallmark symptom of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), yet its clinical expression varies considerably across subtypes. Despite this, few large-scale studies have compared pain features across all Rome IV-defined IBS subt…

review 2016
Nature reviews. Disease primers ·doi:10.1038/nrdp.2016.14

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disease with a high population prevalence. The disorder can be debilitating in some patients, whereas others may have mild or moderate symptoms. The most important single risk …