title: A closer look at mucosal inflammation in irritable bowel syndrome: sex- and gender-related disparities--quantity, quality, or both?
abstract: Irritable bowel syndrome remains a bothersome and frustrating disorder that imposes a heavy and growing socio-economic toll on its sufferers, two-thirds of whom are women, and on health care systems. The biomedical community must take a giant step forward into the discipline of women's gastrointestinal health. Efforts and accomplishments, such as the one reported in this month's issue by Cremon et al., are certainly welcome.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors