A Baranska1,2, Z Mujagic1,3, A Smolinska1,2, J W Dallinga2, D M A E Jonkers3, E F Tigchelaar1,4, J Dekens1,4, A Zhernakova1,4, T Ludwig5, A A M Masclee3, C Wijmenga1,4, F J van Schooten2. 1. Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 2. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands. 3. Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 4. Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. 5. Department of Developmental Physiology and Nutrition, Danone Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is challenging because of its heterogeneity and multifactorial pathophysiology. No reliable biomarkers of IBS have been identified so far. AIMS: In a case-control study, using a novel application of breath analysis to distinguish IBS patients from healthy controls based on the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Subsequently, the diagnostic VOC-biomarker set was correlated with self-reported gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms of subjects of the Maastricht IBS clinical cohort and of a general population cohort, LifeLines DEEP. METHODS: Breath samples were collected from 170 IBS patients and 153 healthy controls in the clinical cohort and from 1307 participants in general population cohort. Multivariate statistics were used to identify the most discriminatory set of VOCs in the clinical cohort, and to find associations between VOCs and GI symptoms in both cohorts. RESULTS: A set of 16 VOCs correctly predicted 89.4% of the IBS patients and 73.3% of the healthy controls (AUC = 0.83). The VOC-biomarker set correlated moderately with a set of GI symptoms in the clinical (r = 0.55, P = 0.0003) and general population cohorts (r = 0.54, P = 0.0004). A Kruskal-Wallis test showed no influence from possible confounding factors in distinguishing IBS patients from healthy controls. CONCLUSIONS: A set of 16 breath-based biomarkers that distinguishes IBS patients from healthy controls was identified. The VOC-biomarker set correlated significantly with GI symptoms in two independent cohorts. We demonstrate the potential use of breath analysis in the diagnosis and monitoring of IBS, and a possible application of VOC analyses in a general population cohort.
BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is challenging because of its heterogeneity and multifactorial pathophysiology. No reliable biomarkers of IBS have been identified so far. AIMS: In a case-control study, using a novel application of breath analysis to distinguish IBSpatients from healthy controls based on the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Subsequently, the diagnostic VOC-biomarker set was correlated with self-reported gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms of subjects of the Maastricht IBS clinical cohort and of a general population cohort, LifeLines DEEP. METHODS: Breath samples were collected from 170 IBSpatients and 153 healthy controls in the clinical cohort and from 1307 participants in general population cohort. Multivariate statistics were used to identify the most discriminatory set of VOCs in the clinical cohort, and to find associations between VOCs and GI symptoms in both cohorts. RESULTS: A set of 16 VOCs correctly predicted 89.4% of the IBSpatients and 73.3% of the healthy controls (AUC = 0.83). The VOC-biomarker set correlated moderately with a set of GI symptoms in the clinical (r = 0.55, P = 0.0003) and general population cohorts (r = 0.54, P = 0.0004). A Kruskal-Wallis test showed no influence from possible confounding factors in distinguishing IBSpatients from healthy controls. CONCLUSIONS: A set of 16 breath-based biomarkers that distinguishes IBSpatients from healthy controls was identified. The VOC-biomarker set correlated significantly with GI symptoms in two independent cohorts. We demonstrate the potential use of breath analysis in the diagnosis and monitoring of IBS, and a possible application of VOC analyses in a general population cohort.
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