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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Jun 12;17(5):922–929.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2018.05.050

Table 3.

Demographics, BAD diagnostic tests, and surrogate markers in patients with IBS-D with elevated primary bile acids (BAs, >10%) and normal 48h total fecal BAs.

The units for N (total number of people) and sex are the number of females and males. Median (IQR) is the unit for the remaining continuous variables.

IBS-D with Primary BAs >10%
N (F/M) 11 (11/0)
Age (years) 35 (31–48)
BMI (kg/cm2) 23.0 (21 – 29.2)
C4 (ng/mL) 23 (14 – 50)
FGF19 (pg/mL) 131.4 (51.9 – 221.9)
Primary fecal BAs (%) 20.4 (16.1 – 28.1)
Total fecal BAs (μmol/48h) 1099 (484.5 – 1829.5)
Fecal weight (g)/48h 404 (322 – 538)
24 hour colonic transit (GC24) 2.9 (1.6–4.0)