Table 1

Patient characteristics of the treatment groups.

Variable
FLV
FLV+TJ-43


Number
25
25

Age, years
40.3 ± 17.3
40.2 ± 16.1
n.s.1)
Sex



     Male
18 (72%)
18 (72%)

     Female
7 (28%)
7 (28%)
n.s.2)
GSRS total score
2.30 ± 1.18
2.53 ± 1.03
n.s.3)
SDS score
56.0 ± 7.0
56.6 ± 7.8
n.s.1)

FLV = fluvoxamine; TJ-43 = Rikkunshito; GSRS = gastrointestinal symptom rating scale; SDS = self-rating depression scale. mean ± SD. N.s. = not significant.

1) Student t-test for unmatched data. 2) Fisher exact probability test. 3) Student t-test for unmatched data and Mann-Whitney U test.

Oka et al. BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2007 1:21   doi:10.1186/1751-0759-1-21

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