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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2013 Aug 14;145(6):1253–61.e1-3. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2013.08.016

Table 1. Clinical characteristics.

Descriptive and inferential statistics for clinical characteristics of IBS patients and HCs.

IBS (N=11)
HCs (N=15)
Test stats
P
M SE M SE
Age 34.0 11.6 32.9 15.0 −0.21 0.84
BMI 26.0 8.0 25.3 5.1 −0.27 0.79
STAI Trait Anxiety 49.4 8.2 40.5 9.3 −2.5 0.02
STAI State Anxiety (PLA day) 45.6 7.0 40.9 4.3 −2.1 0.05
STAI State Anxiety (20 mg day) 44.3 4.7 40.3 4.6 −2.2 0.04
STAI State Anxiety (200 mg day) 48.0 7.2 41.6 5.7 −2.5 0.02