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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 4.

Demographics of the clinical cohort of 938 patients who underwent evaluation for chronic diarrhea or IBS-D

The units for N (total number of participants), sex, and race are represented as the number of participants in each category. Age and BMI are reported as median (IQR).

	Normal % primary and total fecal BAs	Elevated % primary and total fecal BAs	Elevated total fecal BAs (>2337 μmol/48h)	Elevated % primary fecal BAs (>10%)	Overall ANOVA p value
N (F/M)	441 (299/142)	184 (116/68)	69 (42/27)	244 (174/70)	0.24
White/other	410/31	178/6	67/1	222/22
Age (years)	52 (36–67)	53 (38–64)	61 (51–70)	47 (32 – 61.5)	< 0.001
BMI (kg/cm²)	25.5 (21–30)	28 (23.5 – 34)	26.2 (23 – 32)	26.2 (21 – 32)	< 0.001

BAs=bile acids