Table 1.
Participant characteristics
| N | OVERALL | IBS | Non-IBS | χ2 test p value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 703 | 184 | 519 | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Men | 113 | 16.1 | 26 | 14.1 | 87 | 16.8 | 0.404 | ||
| Women | 590 | 83.9 | 158 | 85.9 | 432 | 83.2 | |||
| IBS subtypes | |||||||||
| IBS-C | 28 | 15.2 | |||||||
| IBS-D | 68 | 37.0 | |||||||
| IBS-M | 80 | 43.5 | |||||||
| IBS-U | 8 | 4.4 | |||||||
The characteristics of the participants of this study. It contains the overall number and percentages of men and women who participated in the study, and the same distribution across the IBS and Non-IBS groups. The results of the χ2 test for gender ratios in each group and the number and proportion of IBS subtypes in the IBS group are shown