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From: Changes in salivary physiological stress markers induced by muscle stretching in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

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Three-way repeated-measures ANOVA of CgA showed significant interactions between period and groups (F[1, 31] = 4.89, p = 0.03). *a: Before stretching, salivary CgA in IBS subjects (36.7 ± 5.9 pmol/mg) were significantly higher than in Normal controls (19.9 ± 5.5 pmol/mg, post-hoc, p = 0.006). A significant CgA change between before and after stretching in Normal controls was not shown (post-hoc, p = 0.60). *b: CgA was significantly decreased after stretching in IBS subjects (22.5 ± 4.5 pmol/mg, post-hoc, p = 0.02). After stretching, there was no significant difference in CgA between Normal controls and IBS subjects (post-hoc, p = 0.22). Error bars are mean ± standard error.

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