Las Vegas—A large proportion of people in the United States have regular abdominal bloating, according to the most recent large-scale survey to evaluate this gastrointestinal symptom.
In a representative sample of 88,969 adults in the United States, 12,336 (13.9%) reported bloating; the majority did not seek medical attention, reported Janice E. Oh, MD, a resident in training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
This is not the first survey to find abdominal bloating to be a