SAN DIEGO — Fatigue in patients with quiescent inflammatory bowel disease could be coming from a dysbiosis in the gut microbiome, according to study results presented at Digestive Disease Week.

“Fatigue remains persistent in 40% of the IBD population in remission in absence of any contributing factor,” Nienke Z. Borren, MD, of the division of gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in her presentation. “The etiology remains unexplained, which impairs our ability to effectively treat fatigue.”