Figure 3.

General quality of life (QOL) (eg, 8-item short-form health survey [SF-8]) score in inactive inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients with and without irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) like symptoms. General QOL (physical and mental summary scores) was significantly lower in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients with IBS-like symptoms than in those without such symptoms. In inactive ulcerative colitis (UC) patients, the general QOL score was lower in UC patients with IBS-like symptoms than in those without such symptoms, but that difference was not statistically significant. Statistical analyses were assessed by the Mann-Whitney U test.