Table 4.

The Spearman correlation coefficient of the level of plasma gastrointestinal hormones, the levels of plasma bile acids, and the scores of questionnaires of the FC patients before TN treatment (r-s, P).

	FSBM		BSS		PAC-SYM		PAC-QOL
5-HT	−0.20	0.45	0.02	0.93	0.23	0.38	−0.12	0.65
Motilin	−0.20	0.45	0.02	0.94	0.00	0.99	−0.15	0.56
VIP	−0.01	0.96	0.40	0.11	0.06	0.83	0.10	0.71
Somatostatin	−0.07	0.78	0.21	0.41	−0.12	0.64	0.33	0.19
TDCA	0.15	0.58	−0.21	0.43	−0.33	0.19	−0.10	0.71
TCA	0.10	0.71	0.11	0.67	−0.31	0.22	−0.19	0.47
TLCA	−0.01	0.96	−0.30	0.24	0.00	1.00	−0.41	0.11

n = 17; r-s, Spearman correlation coefficient.