Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: All Roads Lead to Prevention

In this issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Scarpato et al1 from the Mediterranean-European Area Project describe the findings of the largest epidemiologic study of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) in children. In this school-based, cross-sectional study of 13,750 children, more than 1 in 5 children who were 4–10 years of age and 1 in 4 children who were 11–18 years of age met Rome III criteria for an FGID. Functional constipation was the most common FGID in both age groups, followed by a functional abdominal pain disorder, irritable bowel syndrome in children and abdominal migraine in adolescents.

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