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Repeated therapy in subgroups of female patients with IBS: who will respond and to which treatment?

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boxed-textTack J et al. (2005) A randomised controlled trial assessing the efficacy and safety of tegaserod therapy in women with irritable bowel syndrome. Gut 54: 1707–1713

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome who respond to a treatment in the short-term have an increased chance of responding to the same treatment again if their symptoms relapse

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Dr Coffin received an unrestricted grant from Novartis International to realize the study cited in reference 5. Dr Coffin had been a Consultant for Solvay Pharma France, Laboratoires Cephalon France and Novartis France.

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Coffin, B. Repeated therapy in subgroups of female patients with IBS: who will respond and to which treatment?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 3, 310–311 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpgasthep0500

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