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Correlations among bowel habits
| Bowel | Straining | Incomplete/difficult | Manual | Lumpy/hard | Laxatives | |
| mov/day | evacuation | manoeuvres | stools | |||
| Bowel movements (per day) | 1 | -0.365a | -0.246b | -0.123b | -0.218b | -0356b |
| Straining | 1 | 0.562b | 0.293b | 0.592b | 0.416b | |
| Incomplete/difficult evacuation | 1 | 0.327b | 0.558b | 0.273b | ||
| Manual manoeuvres | 1 | 0.303b | 0.233b | |||
| Lumpy/hard stools | 1 | 0.300b | ||||
| Laxatives | 1 |
P < 0.01.
