Table 3.

Impact and frequency of the most recent minor digestive symptoms. The impact is illustrated by the percentage of women in each cluster declaring that the symptom had a significant impact on their life or was painful. The frequency, low or high, is shown as the percentage of women in each cluster experiencing the symptom at least on a weekly basis.

Digestive problem	Proportion (%) impacted by symptom	Proportion (%) reporting symptom as at least once a week
Constipation	71.6	40.9
Intestinal heaviness	77.3	33.3
Abdominal pressure	81.3	44.6
Tummy swelling	44.4	30.0
Intestinal pain	77.6	27.6
Gurgling	65.4	38.5
Flatulence	67.3	52.4
Diarrhoea	78.3	41.0
Gastric pain	91.7	54.2
Acid reflux	63.1	41.7
Burning	76.5	49.0