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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Remes-Troche, Jose Maria
• Coss-Adame, Enrique
• Amieva-Balmori, Mercedes
• Velarde-Ruiz Velasco, José Antonio
• Gómez-Castaños, Paulo César
• Flores-Rendón, Ricardo
• Gómez-Escudero, Octavio
• Rodríguez-Leal, María Celina
• Durán-Rosas, Cristina
• Pinto-Gálvez, Samanta Mayanin
• Priego-Parra, Bryan Adrián
• Triana-Romero, Arturo

Titel

Incidence of ‘new-onset’ constipation and associated factors during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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• BMJ open gastroenterology, 2021-09, Vol.8 (1), p.e000729

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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• ObjectiveA minimum of physical activity and low liquid intake are factors that have been associated with constipation. The health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in adopting behaviour, such as sheltering-in-place (less mobility) and dietary changes, creating a scenario we believe to be an adequate model for examining the appearance of symptoms of constipation and its associated factors.DesignA cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted on an open population, applying an electronic survey (4 weeks after lockdown due to COVID-19 in Mexico) to evaluate demographic characteristics, physical activity, water and fibre intake, appearance of constipation symptoms (including stool consistency), and quality of life.ResultsOut of 678 subjects evaluated, 170 (25%, 95% CI: 21.7 to 28.4) developed symptoms of ‘new-onset’ constipation, with a significant decrease in the number of daily bowel movements (p<0.05) and stool consistency (p<0.05) during lockdown. Furthermore, in the ‘new-onset’ constipation population there was a higher proportion of subjects (79 (47%) of 170) who stopped exercising during the pandemic compared with the subjects who did not develop constipation symptoms (187 (37%) of 508, p=0.03, OR: 1.49, 95% CI: 1.0 to 2.1). The multivariate analysis (logistic regression) showed that female sex (p=0.001), water intake (p=0.039), and physical activity (p=0.012) were associated with ‘new-onset’ constipation.ConclusionsIn our study on an open population in Mexico, we found that one-fourth of the population developed ‘new-onset’ constipation symptoms during the lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A reduction of physical activity and less water consumption were associated factors.