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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Psychosomatic Features of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Role of Alexithymia in Patient Health-Related Quality of Life-A Cross-Sectional Study.

Emanuele Maria Merlo, Liam Alexander MacKenzie Myles, Angela Alibrandi

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Emanuele Maria MerloDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, 98124 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6041-9186
Liam Alexander MacKenzie MylesBerkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Bracknell RG12 2UT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7050-8112
Angela AlibrandiDepartment of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood Gaetano Barresi, University of Messina, 98124 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6695-151X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

alexithymiaclinical psychologyhealth statusIBSirritable bowel syndromepsychosomatic disorderspsychosomatics

Identifiers

PMID41827515
PMCPMC12984775

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