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Real-time observatory on general practitioner activities, with regards to patient monitoring, which is part of the network. Studies from the database are conducted with a view to improving knowledge of the disease and treatment in general practice.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which involves abdominal pain and altered bowel habits, is a common disease that affects 5% of the population. There is no diagnostic test provided and the treatments used are often ineffective. IBS may significantly reduce quality of life and impact daily activities and work. All of these factors can contribute to increased consultations and treatment and, as such, the overall cost of the disease in France for which there is no recent data.

The aim of this cohort is to describe the actual overall cost of IBS by assessing direct costs (examinations, consultations, hospitalisations, reimbursed or non-reimbursed treatment, self-medication, alternative treatments), and indirect costs (work disruption, reduced productivity), assessing the role of factors linked to the disease (IBS type, severity, disease history) and the treatment type (centres of expertise, hospital, practice).

This is a multicentric French cohort of IBS patients for carrying out health economics and epidemiological analyses (increased knowledge of prognostic demographic factors, history, comorbidities, predominant symptoms, type of treatment).

General objective: prospective and epidemiological study on ischaemic cardiac events.

To study the prevalence of smoking in HIV-infected patients.