@article{Doiron_Kogan_Tolls_Irvine-Bird_Nickel_2017, title={Childhood bladder and bowel dysfunction predicts irritable bowel syndrome phenotype in adult interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome patients}, volume={11}, url={https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/4251}, DOI={10.5489/cuaj.4251}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Many clinicians have suggested that a history of bladder and bowel dysfunction (BBD) in childhood predisposes to the development of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in adulthood. We hypothesized that BBD symptoms in childhood would predict the IBS-associated phenotype in adult IC/BPS patients.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Consecutive female patients (n=190) with a diagnosis of IC/BPS were administered a modified form of a clinical BBD questionnaire (BBDQ) to capture childhood BBD-like symptoms, as well as Interstitial Cystitis Symptoms Index (ICSI), Interstitial Cystitis Problem Index (ICPI), Pelvic Pain and Urgency/ Frequency (PUF) questionnaires and UPOINT categorization. Patients were stratified to IBS-positive or IBS-negative according to clinical assessment of IBS-like symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The 127 patients (67%) identified with IBS-like symptoms recalled significantly higher BBDQ scores than the 63 patients (33%) who were IBS-negative (2.8 vs. 2.3; p=0.05). The IBS-positive patients also reported a higher number of UPOINT domains than their non-IBS counterparts (3.8 vs. 2.9; p=0.0001), while their PUF total scores were significantly higher (13.6 vs. 12.3; p=0.04). IBSpositive patients more often recalled that in childhood they did not have a daily bowel movement (BM) (p=0.04) and had “to push for a BM” (p=0.009). In childhood, they “urinated only once or twice per day” (p=0.03) and recalled “painful urination” more than those without IBS (p=0.03). There were no significant differences between the groups in answers to the other five questions of the BBDQ.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Our symptom recollection survey was able to predict the IBS phenotype of IC/BPS based on a childhood BBDQ. Further prospective studies are needed to further evaluate these novel findings.</p>}, number={8}, journal={Canadian Urological Association Journal}, author={Doiron, R. Christopher and Kogan, Barry A. and Tolls, Victoria and Irvine-Bird, Karen and Nickel, J. Curtis}, year={2017}, month={Aug.}, pages={255–9} }