Table 7.

Association between patients’ symptoms and CDT status respective to underlying diseases condition (n = 2036)

Symptoms	Pancreatic diseases (%)	Hepatic diseases (%)	Renal diseases (%)	Malignancies (%)	Miscellaneous diseases (%)	p-value
Bloody diarrhea
Pos	6	4	4	7	15	0.65
Neg	10	5	15	26	32
Total	16	9	19	33	47
Watery diarrhea
Pos	69	30	50	65	71	0.06
Neg	158	115	214	245	251
Total	227	145	264	310	322
Mucus in stool
Pos	42	17	20	31	31	0.29
Neg	108	63	89	131	140
Total	150	80	109	162	171
Abdominal pain
Pos	55	28	27	49	39	0.07
Neg	129	69	118	159	170
Total	184	97	145	208	209
Fever
Pos	49	17	23	58	41	0.18
Neg	119	57	108	219	171
Total	168	74	131	277	212

CDT Clostridium difficile toxins, Pos positive, Neg negative