TABLE 1.
Demographic information of healthy controls and non-diarrheal and diarrheal patients after cholecystectomy in this study.
| HC | Non-PCD | PCD | |
| Cases | 22 | 25 | 23 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 10 | 13 | 12 |
| Female | 12 | 12 | 11 |
| Age | 40.01 ± 2.51 | 47.04 ± 2.58 | 42.96 ± 2.11 |
| Weight (kg) | 65.00 ± 1.90 | 66.66 ± 1.60 | 69.09 ± 1.85 |
| Height (m) | 1.70 ± 0.02 | 1.66 ± 0.01 | 1.67 ± 0.01 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 22.57 ± 0.44 | 24.20 ± 0.50 | 24.89 ± 0.62 |
| Cholecystolithiasis | 0 | 25 | 23 |
| Cholecystectomy | 0 | 25 | 23 |
| Defecatory frequency (/day) | 1.07 ± 0.04 | 1.22 ± 0.05 | 3.04 ± 0.20a,b |
| Stool output (g/day) | 117.17 ± 5.84 | 129.80 ± 11.94 | 342.09 ± 11.16a,b |
| Bristol stool score | 2.73 ± 0.21 | 2.92 ± 0.25 | 5.61 ± 0.19a,b |
| Total | n = 70 | ||
BMI, body mass index, HC, healthy control, PCD, post-cholecystectomy diarrhea, Non-PCD, non-PCD. Data are shown as mean ± standard error mean (SEM). Differences between two groups of each bile acid were compared by Mann–Whitney U-test.
ap < 0.05 compared with the Non-PCD group and bp < 0.05 compared with HC.