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ReviewNature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology2025

Rome Foundation Working Team Report on overlap in disorders of gut-brain interaction.

Giovanni Barbara, Imran Aziz, Sarah Ballou, Lin Chang, Alexander C Ford, Shin Fukudo, Samuel Nurko, Carolina Olano, Miguel Saps, Gregory Sayuk and 3 more

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Review in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Irritable bowel syndrome.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026
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  18. Overlap of 'disorders of gut-brain interaction': A type of diseases that require special attention.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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  19. Circadian regulation of gastrointestinal motility and the effect on disorders of gut-brain interaction.Journal of smooth muscle research = Nihon Heikatsukin Gakkai kikanshi · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Giovanni BarbaraIRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Imran AzizAcademic Department of Gastroenterology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, UK.
Sarah BallouDivision of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6746-1958
Lin ChangVatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Alexander C FordLeeds Gastroenterology Institute, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6371-4359
Shin FukudoDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Ishinomaki Hospital, Research Center for Accelerator and Radioisotope Science, Tohoku University, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2265-0349
Samuel NurkoCenter for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0936-4807
Carolina OlanoGastroenterology Department. Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4340-4051
Miguel SapsDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
Gregory SayukGastroenterology Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Kewin T H SiahNUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2795-5101
Lukas Van OudenhoveLaboratory for Brain-Gut Axis Studies (LaBGAS), Translational Research in Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Magnus SimrénDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. magnus.simren@medicine.gu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1155-1313

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In patients with disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI), overlapping non-gastrointestinal conditions such as fibromyalgia, headaches, gynaecological and urological conditions, sleep disturbances and fatigue are common, as is overlap among DGBI in different regions of the gastrointestinal tract. These overlaps strongly influence patient management and outcome. Shared pathophysiology could explain this scenario, but details are not fully understood. This overlap has been shown to be of great relevance for DGBI. In addition, symptoms considered to be caused by a DGBI could have a detectable organic cause, and in patients with a diagnosed organic gastrointestinal disease, symptoms not clearly explained by the pathology defining this organic disease are common. Thus, the aims of this Rome Foundation Working Team Report were to review the literature on overlapping conditions among patients with paediatric and adult DGBI and, based on the available epidemiological and clinical evidence, make recommendations for the current diagnostic and therapeutic approach, and for future research. Specifically, we focused on other DGBI in the same or different gastrointestinal anatomical region(s), DGBI overlap with organic bowel diseases in remission, and DGBI overlap with non-gastrointestinal, non-structural conditions.

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BrainBrain-Gut AxisGastrointestinal DiseasesFibromyalgiaHumans

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PMID39870943

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