. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2020 Jul 14;65(12):3688–3695. doi: 10.1007/s10620-020-06394-0

Table 1.

Demographics and Obstetrics History

	DPS	Other Constipation	P-value
Total (N)	23	277
Female (N, %)	23 (100%)	223 (80.5%)	0.02
Age (years) (mean, 95% CI)	50.2 (43.4–57.0)	41.7 (39.7–43.7)	0.03
BMI (kg/m²) (mean, 95% CI)	22.1 (20.0–24.3)	22.9 (22.3–23.6)	0.34
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (N, %)	5 (21.7%)	7 (2.5%)	0.0009
Obstetrics History
Percent who had at least one delivery (N, %)	17 (77%)	85 (41.5%)	0.0015
Percent who had at least one vaginal delivery (N, %)	16 (84.2%)	64 (31.4%)	<0.001
Percent who had at least one traumatic vaginal delivery^* (N, %)	5 (26.3%)	23 (11.3%)	0.071
Average number of births (mean, 95% CI) (median, IQR)	2.24 (1.72–2.75) 2 (1.5–3)	0.94 (0.78–1.10) 0 (0–2)	0.0006
Hysterectomy (N, %)	8 (42.1%)	27 (16.2%)	0.012

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