Table 3.
Prevalence of Chronic Abdominal Pain Among 305 Children With Abdominal Pain in General Practice, by Classification of Symptoms Resembling Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
| Children With Chronic Abdominal Pain, No. (%) | |||||
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| Symptom Category | Baseline | 3 Months | 6 Months | 9 Months | 12 Months |
| Functional dyspepsia | 11 (45.8) | 12 (54.5) | 9 (45.0) | 6 (28.6) | 6 (26.1) |
| Irritable bowel syndrome | 48 (42.1) | 54 (54.0) | 46 (46.5) | 50 (52.6) | 45 (41.3) |
| Functional abdominal pain | 75 (49.3) | 77 (58.8) | 60 (48.8) | 51 (44.0) | 51 (37.2) |
| Missing | 8 (53.3) | 8 (61.5) | 6 (42.9) | 6 (42.9) | 3 (21.4) |