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