Table 2.

Health-related QoL scores of PCOS patients and controls, with and without IBS.

Variable	PCOS patients			Controls			IBS-PCOS vs IBS-CON (P)	PCOS vs CON (P)
	IBS-PCOS	Non-IBS-PCOS	P	IBS-CON	Non-IBS-CON	P
Mobility	0.07 (0.00)	0.07 (0.00)	0.53	0.07 (0.00)	0.07 (0.00)	0.64	0.66	0.64
Vision	0.05 (0.01)	0.05 (0.00)	0.04	0.05 (0.01)	0.05 (0.00)	0.51	0.96	0.88
Hearing	0.06 (0.00)	0.06 (0.00)	0.80	0.06 (0.00)	0.06 (0.00)	0.64	0.48	0.76
Breathing	0.07 (0.03)	0.08 (0.03)	0.11	0.06 (0.03)	0.08 (0.03)	0.15	0.49	0.84
Sleeping	0.05 (0.02)	0.06 (0.03)	0.02	0.05 (0.02)	0.07 (0.03)	0.10	0.94	0.23
Eating	0.07 (0.00)	0.07 (0.00)	0.59	0.07 (0.00)	0.07 (0.00)	0.98	0.98	0.94
Speech	0.07 (0.00)	0.07 (0.00)	0.98	0.06 (0.00)	0.07 (0.00)	0.68	0.36	0.63
Excretion	0.04 (0.02)	0.06 (0.00)	<0.001	0.05 (0.02)	0.06 (0.00)	0.20	0.27	0.63
Usual activities	0.07 (0.02)	0.08 (0.00)	0.16	0.07 (0.02)	0.08 (0.00)	0.26	0.48	0.54
Mental function	0.06 (0.04)	0.09 (0.00)	0.002	0.08 (0.00)	0.09 (0.02)	0.70	0.08	0.51
Discomfort and symptoms	0.04 (0.02)	0.06 (0.02)	0.004	0.04 (0.02)	0.06 (0.02)	0.86	0.12	0.30
Depression	0.04 (0.01)	0.05 (0.01)	0.02	0.04 (0.02)	0.05 (0.01)	0.43	0.89	0.79
Distress	0.05 (0.00)	0.05 (0.01)	0.09	0.04 (0.01)	0.05 (0.01)	0.002	0.06	0.65
Vitality	0.05 (0.02)	0.06 (0.02)	0.03	0.05 (0.02)	0.06 (0.03)	0.13	0.40	0.83
Sexual activity	0.05 (0.02)	0.05 (0.01)	<0.001	0.05 (0.01)	0.05 (0.01)	0.51	0.33	0.91
Total 15D score	0.83 (0.13)	0.93 (0.08)	<0.001	0.86 (0.07)	0.95 (0.14)	0.05	0.59	0.28

15D scores refer to subjects who completed the given questionnaire.

Bold indicates statistical significance, P < 0.05.