Patients with abnormal small bowel transit in systemic sclerosis were more likely to be men and have severe cardiac involvement, higher mortality, and fewer sicca symptoms.
who exhibit abnormal small bowel transit are more likely to be men, experience more severe cardiac involvement, have a higher mortality risk, and show fewer sicca symptoms.Researchers enrolled 130 patients with SSc having gastrointestinal symptoms seen at the Johns HopkinsClinical data and serum samples were longitudinally collected from all actively followed patients at the time of enrollment and every 6 months thereafter .
A multivariate analysis showed that patients with abnormal small bowel transit had higher mortality than those with a normal transit (adjusted hazard ratio, 5.03;"Our findings improve our understanding of risk factors associated with abnormal small bowel transit in SSc patients and shed light on the lived experience of patients with this GI complication," the authors wrote.
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