Abdominal binders improve colonoscopy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials with BMI-stratified subgroup analysis
Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Published online on July 20, 2026
Abstract
Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, Volume 19, January-December 2026.
Background:Abdominal binders have been studied as an adjunctive device for colonoscopy, but trial-level evidence is heterogeneous and existing meta-analyses have either not stratified by body-mass index (BMI) or used only linear meta-regression, leaving ...
Background:Abdominal binders have been studied as an adjunctive device for colonoscopy, but trial-level evidence is heterogeneous and existing meta-analyses have either not stratified by body-mass index (BMI) or used only linear meta-regression, leaving ...