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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Dec 4;20(9):2083–2090.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2021.11.035

Table 2.

Bowel functions

Data show N (%) IBS-D BAD IBS-D without BAD P-value
Number of patients 44 160
Bowel function
Stools loose or watery in last year: Sometimes 5 (12.2%) 29 (19.5%) 0.002
              Often 11 (26.8%) 74 (49.7%)
              Usually 25 (61.0%) 46 (30.9%)
Experienced an urgent need to open your bowels that made you rush to the toilet in the last year
              Sometimes		 8 (19.5%) 53 (35.6%) 0.002
              Often 19 (46.3%) 76 (51.0%)
              Usually 14 (34.1%) 18 (12.1%)
Mucus in stools in the last year 8 (25.0%) 61 (46.9%) 0.029
# of bowel movements/week   17-21 11 (26.8%) 20 (13.4%) 0.001
              22-26 6 (14.6%) 19 (12.8%)
              >26 9 (22.0%) 16 (10.7%)
Severity of straining with BM  Never 18 (43.9%) 35 (23.6%) 0.049
              Very mild 9 (22.0%) 38 (25.7%)
              Mild 4 (9.8%) 29 (19.6%)
              Moderate 7 (17.1%) 40 (27.0%)
              Severe 2 (4.9%) 5 (3.4%)
              Very Severe 1 (2.4%) 1 (0.7%)