More fiber content in food may help relieve chronic constipation: Study
UK: A recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that constipation can be relieved by taking more fiber into the diet.
A common illness that is yet difficult to cure is chronic constipation. Increased fiber consumption may reduce symptoms, according to studies, however, it's unclear what kind, how much, and for how long. Therefore, Alice van der Schoot and colleagues conducted this investigation using a systematic review of randomized controlled trials to examine the impact of fiber supplementation on stool production, gut transit time, symptoms, and quality of life in individuals with chronic constipation (RCTs).
Electronic databases, manual searches of abstracts, and reverse citation were all used to find all relevant cases. RCTs that reported giving people with persistent constipation fiber supplements were included. The Cochrane RoB 2.0 tool was used to evaluate risk of bias (RoB). Using a random-effects model, the results were summarized using risk ratios (RR), mean differences (MD) or standardized mean differences (SMD), and 95 percent confidence intervals (CI).
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