Table 2.
Frequency of positive or negative history of psychiatric symptoms between different subtypes of IBS according to age and gender
|
History of Psychiatric symptoms
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Total
|
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| IBS-C | IBS-D | IBS-M | IBS-C | IBS-D | IBS-M | IBS-C | IBS-D | IBS-M | |
|
Age (years)
(Mean±SD) |
39.4±13.8 | 37.9±13.1* | 39.7±19.8 | 34.4±12.0 | 26.8±3.8* | 36.0±12.9 | 36.0±12.8 | 33.4±11.6 | 38.2±15.3 |
| <30 | 7(31.8%) | 4(18.2%) | 11(50.0%) | 20(58.8%) | 8(23.5%) | 6(17.6%) | 27(48.2%) | 12(21.4%) | 17(30.4%) |
| 30-45 | 10(37.0%) | 6(22.2%) | 11(40.7%) | 25(69.4%) | 1(2.8%) | 10(27.8%) | 35(55.6%) | 7(11.1%) | 21(33.3%) |
| >45 | 9(45.0%) | 3(15.0%) | 8(40.0%) | 9(64.0%) | 0(0%) | 5(35.7%) | 18(52.9%) | 3(8.8%) | 13(38.2%) |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Male | 7(33.3%) | 4(19.0%) | 10(47.6%) | 23(62.2%) | 4(10.8%) | 10(27.0%) | 30(51.7%) | 8(13.8%) | 20(34.5%) |
| Female | 19(36.9%) | 9(18.8%) | 20(41.7%) | 31(66.0%) | 5(10.6%) | 11(23.4%) | 50(52.6%) | 14(14.7%) | 31(32.6%) |
| Total | 26(37.7%) | 13(18.8%) | 30(43.5%) | 54(64.3%) | 9(10.7%) | 21(25%) | 80(52.3%) | 22(14.4%) | 51(33.3%) |
Statistical difference among mean age of IBS-D patients with or without history of psychiatric symptoms (p<0.05)