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Summary: All healthcare practitioners (including non-sexual health/HIV specialists) need to consider careful and thorough history taking (including sexual history) to identify those at risk.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24335755 'Gay bowel syndrome': relic or real (and returning) phenomenon?] by Cooper F1, Barber T., ''Current Opinion in Infectious Disease'', 2014 Feb;27(1):84-9. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000032.</ref>}}

Summary: All healthcare practitioners (including non-sexual health/HIV specialists) need to consider careful and thorough history taking (including sexual history) to identify those at risk.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24335755 'Gay bowel syndrome': relic or real (and returning) phenomenon?] by Cooper F1, Barber T., ''Current Opinion in Infectious Disease'', 2014 Feb;27(1):84-9. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000032.</ref>}}

In 2004, [[Medscape]] published an article by the noted HIV/AIDS specialist [[John G. Bartlett]] which stated that gay bowel syndrome is a significant issue in regards [[HIV]] infection (In 2004, the [[Johns Hopkins Hospital|Johns Hopkins]] HIV Guide website also featured a literature review article about gay bowel syndrome by the John G. Bartlett, M.D. which is essentially a duplicate of the aforementioned article at Medscape).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081120130223/http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org/literature_review/02-2004/new_look_at_gay_bowel_syndrome.html Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, review of the literature - essentially duplicate of Medscape's New Look at Gay Bowel Syndrome], 2004, Wayback machine</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n3_v47/ai_13502158/pg_1 Clinical features and diagnosis - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, part 1] - American Family Physician,  Feb 15, 1993  by Glen E. Hastings,  Richard J. Weber</ref><ref>[http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/470936_4 Medscape - New Look at "Gay Bowel Syndrome"]</ref>   

In 2004, [[Medscape]] published an article by the noted HIV/AIDS specialist [[John G. Bartlett]] which stated that gay bowel syndrome is a significant issue in regards [[HIV]] infection (In 2004, the [[Johns Hopkins Hospital|Johns Hopkins]] HIV Guide website also featured a literature review article about gay bowel syndrome by the John G. Bartlett, M.D. which is essentially a duplicate of the aforementioned article at Medscape).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081120130223/http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org/literature_review/02-2004/new_look_at_gay_bowel_syndrome.html Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, review of the literature - essentially duplicate of Medscape's New Look at Gay Bowel Syndrome], 2004, Wayback machine</ref><ref>[http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/470936_4 Medscape - New Look at "Gay Bowel Syndrome"]</ref>   

Gay bowel syndrome is a clinical pattern of anorectal and colon diseases which occur with unusual frequency in [[homosexuality|homosexual]] patients (the diseases are not exclusive to male homosexuals).<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=578386&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus N. Sohn, JG Robilotti Jr. ''The gay bowel syndrome. A review of colonic and rectal conditions in 200 male homosexuals''. AM J Gastroenterol 1977 May;67(5):478-84]</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n3_v47/ai_13502158/pg_1 Clinical features and diagnosis - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, part 1] - American Family Physician,  Feb 15, 1993  by Glen E. Hastings,  Richard J. Weber</ref>   

Gay bowel syndrome is a clinical pattern of anorectal and colon diseases which occur with unusual frequency in [[homosexuality|homosexual]] patients (the diseases are not exclusive to male homosexuals).<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=578386&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus N. Sohn, JG Robilotti Jr. ''The gay bowel syndrome. A review of colonic and rectal conditions in 200 male homosexuals''. AM J Gastroenterol 1977 May;67(5):478-84]</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n3_v47/ai_13502158/pg_1 Clinical features and diagnosis - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, part 1] - American Family Physician,  Feb 15, 1993  by Glen E. Hastings,  Richard J. Weber</ref>