Table 2.
Prevalence of overall and sub-category FGID among cohorts of children under the age of four years.
| First Author | Age Range |
Cohort Number |
% with at Least One FGID | Infant Regurgitation |
Rumination Syndrome |
Cyclic Vomiting |
Infant Colic |
Functional Diarrhoea |
Infant Dyschezia |
Functional Constipation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beser [10] | 0–12 m | 2383 | 35.1 | 13.4 | - | - | 19.2 | - | 9.8 | - |
| Chanis [11] | 0–12 m | 65 | 40 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 2.3 | 7.7 |
| Chew [12] | 1–12 m | 534 | 14.6 | 10.5 | 1.7 | 0 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| Chikunov [13] | 0–6 m | 180 | 23 | 5.6 | 1 | 0.6 | 19.4 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 3.9 |
| 7 m−4 y | 120 | 18 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 1.65 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 31.7 | |
| Llanos-Chea [17] | 1–48 m | 815 | 21.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.6 # |
| Ozdemir [18] | 0–12 m | 481 | 5.8 | 4.1 | - | - | 2.2 | - | 0.62 | - |
| Robin [19] | 0–12 m | 58 | 37.9 | 24 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 12.1 |
| Robin [19] | 13–36 m | 238 | 21.4 | * | 2.1 | 2.1 | * | 0 | * | 18.5 |
| Saps [21] | 0–12 m | 389 | 30.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.7 # |
| 13–48 m | 945 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26.5 # | ||
| Steutel [22] | 0–12 m | 1698 | 24.7 | 13.8 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| 13–48 m | 1053 | 11.3 | * | 0 | 1.5 | * | 0.6 | * | 9.7 | |
| Velasco-Benitez [24] | 0–12 m | 1298 | 32.1 | 16.7 | - | - | 5.4 | - | 2.9 | 7.9 |
| 13–48 m | * | 1.8 | 1.7 | * | 0.4 | * | 29.5 | |||
| Vlad [27] | 0–12 m | 174 | 21.4 | 15.5 | 5.2 | 0.5 | 5.1 | 0 | 6.9 | 6.3 |
| 13–48 m | 134 | * | 0.7 | 1.5 | * | 0 | * | 8.9 |
All data presented as %; -: not reported, * = 12 month + categories assessed only, # constipation categories reported only.