Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Health-related quality of life of irritable bowel syndrome patients in different cultural settings | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Health-related quality of life of irritable bowel syndrome patients in different cultural settings Ảshild Faresjo 1 Foteini Anastasiou2 Christos Lionis2 Saga Johansson3 5 Mari-Ann Wallander4 5 and Tomas Faresjo6 Address 1Social Medicine and Public Health Science Dept of Health and Society Linkõping University Linkõping Sweden 2Clinic of Social and Family Medicine School of Medicine University of Crete Greece 3Cardiovascular Institute University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden 4Dept of Public Health and Caring Science Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden 5Dept of Epidemiology AstraZeneca R D Mõlndal Sweden and 6General Practice and Primary care Dept of Health and Society Linkõping University Linkõping Sweden Email Ảshild Faresjõ - ashfa@ Foteini Anastasiou - fanast@ Christos Lionis - lionis@ Saga Johansson - Mari-Ann Wallander - Tomas Faresjõ - tomfa@ Corresponding author Published 27 March 2006 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes2006 4 21 doi 1477-7525-4-21 Received 01 January 2006 Accepted 27 March 2006 This article is available from http content 4 1 21 2006Faresjo et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Persons with Irritable bowel syndrome IBS are seriously affected in their everyday life. The effect across different cultural settings of IBS on their quality of life has been little studied. The aim was to compare health-related quality of life HRQOL of individuals suffering from IBS in two different cultural settings Crete Greece and Linkoping Sweden. Methods This study is a sex and .