Table 1 |
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Clinical characteristics |
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| Clinical parameters |
FAPS |
IBS |
Control |
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| No. of subjects |
6 |
7 |
13 |
| Mean age (years) |
41.2 ± 4.7 |
26.4 ± 2.3 |
32.3 ± 3.4 |
| Sex (M/F) |
2/4 |
2/5 |
6/7 |
| Stool frequency (/day) |
0.92 ± 0.1 |
2.9 ± 0.6* |
1.0 ± 0.1 |
| BMI |
21 ± 0.7 |
21 ± 1.0 |
20 ± 0.7 |
| Days missed from work or school because of illness over past three months |
33.8 ± 14.1* |
20.4 ± 3.4* |
0 ± 0 |
| Length of hospital stay because of illness (days) |
21.8 ± 14.2 |
7.7 ± 5.4 |
0 ± 0 |
| HADS |
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| Anxiety |
12.5 ± 1.8* |
7.4 ± 1.2* |
2.2 ± 0.1 |
| Depression |
6.5 ± 1.8* |
5.9 ± 1.5* |
1.9 ± 0.2 |
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FAPS, functional abdominal pain syndrome; IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; BMI, body-mass index; HADS, hospital anxiety and depression scale *P vs. control <0.05; Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance followed by the Mann-Whitney rank sum test |
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Nozu and Kudaira BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2009 3:13 doi:10.1186/1751-0759-3-13 |
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