Table 3 Proportion (%) of women with GI symptoms premenstrually, comparing those with or without emotional symptoms
From: Gastrointestinal symptoms before and during menses in healthy women
Depressive symptoms | Anxiety symptoms | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | P value | Yes | No | P value | |
n = 50 | n = 106 | n = 24 | n = 132 | |||
Primary GI symptoms | % | % | % | % | ||
Abdominal pain | 68 | 53 | 0.118 | 62 | 58 | 0.88 |
Diarrhea | 36 | 19 | 0.028 | 42 | 21 | 0.040 |
Nausea | 28 | 11 | 0.012 | 38 | 13 | 0.006 |
Constipation | 24 | 11 | 0.056 | 25 | 14 | 0.27 |
Vomiting | 4 | 1 | 0.40 | 8 | 1 | 0.062 |
Any primary symptom | 86 | 67 | 0.012 | 75 | 73 | 1.0 |
Multiple (≥2) primary symptoms | 46 | 24 | 0.006 | 54 | 27 | 0.014 |
Secondary GI symptoms | ||||||
Bloating | 82 | 52 | <0.001 | 71 | 60 | 0.43 |
Pelvic pain | 76 | 36 | <0.001 | 58 | 47 | 0.42 |