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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: Patients with postprandial distress syndrome experience problems with their interoceptive perceptual function to the gastric region, but their heartbeat perception is normal: a case control study

 

PDS

 

HV

P a

 

N = 16

 

 N = 16

 

Mean

(SD)

 

Mean

(SD)

 

Age

47.5

(17.4)

 

43.3

(16.1)

0.584

 

Height (cm)

155.7

(6.1)

 

158.3

(5.0)

0.416

 

Weight (kg)

45.4

(9.5)

 

50.4

(5.8)

0.131

 

Body mass index

18.8

(4.0)

 

20.2

(2.6)

0.546

 
  1. a Mann–Whitney U test
  2. PDS, postprandial distress syndrome; HV, healthy volunteers; SD, standard deviation