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Table 3 Distress levels of any symptoms (0 = no to 100 = maximum distress)

From: Epidemiology of gastrointestinal symptoms in young and middle-aged Swiss adults: prevalences and comorbidities in a longitudinal population cohort over 28 years

Gastric

N

mean

sd

Intestinal

n

mean

sd

subacute all

76

55.4

26.3

subacute all

57

50.9

28.1

subacute m

33

52.5

26.5

subacute m

20

46.0

26.4

subacute f

43

57.6

26.2

subacute f

37

53.5

28.9

p (m vs f)

 

0.399

   

0.330

 

chronic all

54

67.9

24.0

chronic all

91

51.9

30.3

chronic m

17

69.3

23.9

chronic m

33

50.5

32.8

chronic f

37

67.3

24.3

chronic f

58

52.7

29.1

p (m vs f)

 

0.776

   

0.733

 
  1. Legend: n = number in the sample, m = male, f = female, mean = arithmetic mean, sd = standard deviation, p = type I error that the distress of m and f are different (two-sided)
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BMC Gastroenterology

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