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Inmaculada Bañón-rodríguez
Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for Clinical response to linaclotide at week 4 predicts sustained response in irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and improvements in digestive and extra-digestive symptoms
Supplemental material, Supplementary_Material for Clinical response to linaclotide at week 4 predicts sustained response in irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and improvements in digestive and extra-digestive symptoms by Blanca Serrano-Falcón, Sílvia Delgado-Aros, Fermín Mearin, Constanza Ciriza de los Ríos, Jordi Serra, Miguel Mínguez, Miguel Montoro Huguet, Antonia Perelló, Cecilio Santander, Ángeles Pérez Aisa, Inmaculada Bañón-Rodríguez and Enrique Rey in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Clinical response to linaclotide at week 4 predicts sustained response in irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and improvements in digestive and extra-digestive symptoms
Background:Linaclotide is approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with constipation (IBS-C) in adults. This study aimed to assess factors predictive of a clinical response and improvements in non-IBS symptoms with linaclotide treatment in a Spanish patient population.Methods:In this open-label phase IIIb study, patients with moderate-to-severe IBS-C received linaclotide 290 μg once daily for 12 weeks. The primary endpoint was clinical response at week 12, defined as >30% reduction in IBS symptom severity score (IBS-SSS) or IBS-SSS <75 plus self-reported response of feeling ‘better’ or ‘much better’ versus the baseline. Digestive nonintestinal an…