Priya Vijayvargiya, MD
A new study underscores the importance of testing patients with chronic diarrhea for abnormal bile acids.
The study, from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found that 51% of patients with nonbloody chronic functional diarrhea were diagnosed with bile acid diarrhea (BAD) and 70% improved on bile acid sequestrants.
According to Priya Vijayvargiya, MD, a third-year gastroenterology fellow who led the study, BAD is occasionally seen by U.S. gastroenterologists, “but the