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Original Article

How individuals with the irritable bowel syndrome describe their own symptoms before formal diagnosis

Herdis MolinderDivision of Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden;
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Lars AgréusDivision of Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Correspondence[email protected]
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Lars KjellströmCentre for Gastrointestinal Disease, Sabbatsberg Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Susanna WalterInstitution of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;
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Nicholas J. TalleyFaculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia;
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Anna AndreassonDivision of Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; ;Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Henry NyhlinDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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Pages 276-279 | Received 29 Jan 2015, Accepted 07 Apr 2015, Published online: 20 Oct 2015

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