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Table 5 Comparison of degree of anxiety in daily life of female subjects aged 20–49 years

From: Influence of the requirement for abdominal pain in the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) under the Rome IV criteria using data from a large Japanese population-based internet survey

 

Female age 20–49 years

 

Surrogate Rome IV FBD subjects

(n = 101)

Surrogate Rome IV IBS-C subjects

(n = 68)

p-value

Age (mean ± SD, years)

37 ± 8

36 ± 9

n.s.

Degree of anxiety in daily life

  

< 0.05

 None

23 (22.8)

9 (13.2)

 

 Sometimes

52 (51.5)

31 (45.6)

 

 Often

22 (21.8)

18 (26.5)

 

 Almost

4 (4.0)

10 (14.7)

 
  1. Data are expressed as n (%) unless otherwise indicated