Correlative Studies on the Biorelevance of Smoking in Gastrointestinal Irritable Bowel Syndrome-like Symptoms

We are proposing here a correlative study on the bio relevance of smoking in gastrointestinal irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)-like symptoms. Thus, our data, based on the effect of nicotine consumption (common smoking) on gastrointestinal habits (e.g. IBS-like alterations) in stressful conditions, are showing that smoking could be an additional risk factor which could play a cumulative role in IBS symptoms occurrence. In this way, its bio relevance could contribute to novel surveying techniques that may find and alert the users of its effects in IBS development and therefore showing a promising perspective in preventive medicine. This could further result in a novel computational tool which could be used both in diagnosis, prevalence, evaluation and prevention of IBS, depending on the target population.