TABLE 2.
Incidence of exercise-associated gastrointestinal symptoms development for the main sport, participation level, and gender (n = 137 respondents).
| Main sport |
Participation level |
Sex |
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| Incidence of Ex-GIS development | Totals n |
Running n, (%) |
Triathlon n, (%) |
Non-running sports n, (%) |
Assoc. between Ex-GIS develop. and main sport χ2 (p) |
Rec. non-comp n, (%) |
Rec. comp n, (%) |
CompRNI n, (%) |
Assoc. between Ex-GIS develop. and part. level χ2 (p) |
Male n, (%) |
Female n, (%) |
Assoc. between Ex-GIS develop. and gender χ2 (p) |
| Around training | 29 (21) |
17 (58) |
4 (14) |
8 (28) |
1.19 (0.55) |
8 (28) |
12 (41) |
9 (31) |
0.32 (0.85) |
10 (35) |
19 (65) |
0.09 (0.76) |
| Around competitions |
41 (30) |
18 (44) |
14 (34) |
9 (22) |
3.68 (0.16) |
10 (24) |
10 (24) |
21 (52) |
8.21 (0.02)* |
20 (49) |
21 (51) |
2.3 (0.13) |
| Equally around training and competitions | 67 (49) |
40 (60) |
12 (18) |
15 (22) |
0.82 (0.67) |
26 (39) |
29 (43) |
12 (18) |
5.14 (0.08) |
21 (31) |
46 (69) |
0.97 (0.32) |
*No significant difference after post hoc Bonferroni correction (p < 0.05). Assoc., association; Comp, Competitive; CompRNI, Competitive regional, national, and international; Develop., development; Ex-GIS, exercise-associated gastrointestinal symptoms; n, number; part., participation; p, probability value; Rec., recreational; %, percentage; χ2, chi-square statistic.