Patients with irritable bowel syndrome are three times more likely to have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease than people without IBS, according to an analysis of national data.
The study is not the first to propose an association between the two conditions, but it used a database with over 84 million patients, of whom more than 600,000 had IBS. The study was not designed to explain the reason for this association, but it does indicate that some link, such as change in gut microbiota, might be