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. 2018 Mar 15;10(2):75–83. doi: 10.15171/mejdd.2018.94

Table 2. Sex-stratified comparison of smoking, and opium and alcohol consumption .

Variables Men (n = 4286) Women (n = 4988)
FC (n = 286) No FC (n = 3990) P value FC (n = 466) No FC (n = 4521) P value
Cigarette ever used Yes 144 (50.3%) 1745 (43.8%) 0.032 8 (1.7%) 43 (1%) 0.12
No 142 (49.7%) 2238 (56.2%) 458 (98.3%) 4471 (99%)
Non-cigarette
tobacco ever used
Yes 95 (33.3%) 1136 (28.5%) 0.083 235 (50.4%) 2071 (45.9%) 0.063
No 190 (66.7%) 2848 (71.5%) 231 (49.6%) 2440 (54.1%)
Opium ever used Yes 98 (34.3%) 645 (16.2%) < 0.001 2 (0.4%) 29 (0.6%) 0.56
No 188 (65.7%) 3345 (83.8%) 464 (99.6%) 4492 (99.4%)
Alcohol consumption Yes 17 (5.9%) 149 (3.7%) 0.062 2 (0.4%) 28 (0.6%) 0.61
No 269 (94.1%) 3841 (96.3%) 464 (99.6%) 4493 (99.4%)

P was calculated by: X2 test and fisher exact test

CC: Chronic constipation, FC: Functional constipation