Table 2. Presenting complaints and precipitating factors (n=64).
| Variables | Groups, n (%) |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild, n=36 | Moderate, n=22 | Severe, n=6 | Total, n=64 | ||
| Presenting complaints | |||||
| Chest pain | 26 (72.2) | 18 (81.8) | 6 (100.0) | 50 (78.1) | 0.317 |
| Neck pain | 20 (55.6) | 12 (54.5) | 3 (50.0) | 35 (54.7) | 1.000 |
| Dyspnea | 9 (25.0) | 7 (31.8) | 2 (33.3) | 18 (28.1) | 0.774 |
| Odynophagia | 5 (13.9) | 4 (18.2) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (14.1) | 0.765 |
| Coughing | 0 (0.0) | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.6) | 0.438 |
| Voice change | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (16.7) | 1 (1.6) | 0.094 |
| Precipitating factors | |||||
| No precipitating factor | 21 (58.3) | 11 (50.0) | 2 (33.3) | 34 (53.1) | 0.490 |
| Coughing | 6 (16.7) | 5 (22.7) | 1 (16.7) | 12 (18.8) | 0.888 |
| Feeding | 4 (11.1) | 4 (18.2) | 1 (16.7) | 9 (14.1) | 0.566 |
| Vomiting | 2 (5.6) | 2 (9.1) | 3 (50.0) | 7 (10.9) | 0.015 |
| Exercise | 2 (5.6) | 1 (4.5) | 1 (16.7) | 4 (6.3) | 0.535 |
| Playing wind instrument | 1 (2.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.6) | 1.000 |
Categorical variables are reported as frequencies (%). Chi-square test or Fischer’s exact test was used for categorical variables.