Table 1.
Prevalence of abdominal pain predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders according to sex
| Boys (n = 779) |
Girls (n = 918) |
Total (n = 1697) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | |
| Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - Total | 38 | 4.9% | 36 | 3.9% | 74 | 4.4% |
| IBS-diarrhoea predominant | 11 | 1.4% | 11 | 1.2% | 22 | 1.3% |
| IBS-constipation predominant | 5 | 0.6% | 13 | 1.4% | 18 | 1.1% |
| IBS-mixed | 8 | 1.0% | 5 | 0.5% | 13 | 0.8% |
| IBS-untyped | 14 | 1.8% | 7 | 0.8% | 21 | 1.2% |
| Functional dyspepsia | 8 | 1.0% | 17 | 1.9% | 25 | 1.5% |
| Abdominal migraine | 13 | 1.7% | 41* | 4.5% | 54 | 3.2% |
| Functional abdominal pain | 40 | 5.1% | 27 | 2.9% | 67 | 4.0% |
| Abdominal pain predominant FGDs-total | 80 | 10.3% | 122 | 13.3% | 202 | 11.9% |
FGIDs = functional gastrointestinal disorders
*p = 0.001, chi-square test, girls vs. boys