Objective: To assess the risk factors in the pathogenicity of irritable bouel syndrome(IBS) in Zhanjiang city.
Methods: Two hundred and seven IBS patients were randomly selected and compared with "healthy" people diagnosed in the same hospital during the same period. Roles of major risk factors to IBS were studied through using a case-control study.
Results: Family history of hysteria or mental disease and vegetorsis was closely related to IBS, with ORs 3 and 4 respectively. There was alse close relationship between IBS and psychic trauma, often taking antibiotics, tension at work and eating sweet potato or cassava, with ORs between 1 and 2.
Conclusion: Our investigation suggested that the six major risk factors mentioned above played important roles in the progression of IBS in Zhanjiang city.