Table 3 Gender, education and smoking adjusted associations between the GI complaints individually and combined, and anxiety, depression and other somatic symptoms
Nausea | Stomach pain | Feeling bloated | Coated tongue | Vomiting or regurgitation | Frequent loose bowel movements | GI complaints (>80th percentile) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | |
Anxiety | 4.63 | 3.38-6.34 | 3.23 | 2.75-3.80 | 2.56 | 2.27-2.88 | 2.42 | 2.09-2.81 | 3.02 | 2.30-3.97 | 2.63 | 2.26-3.07 | 3.66 | 3.31-4.04 |
Depression | 4.43 | 3.10-6.32 | 3.19 | 2.63-3.87 | 2.56 | 2.20-2.97 | 2.29 | 1.89-2.76 | 2.79 | 2.02-3.84 | 2.55 | 2.12-3.06 | 3.28 | 2.89-3.72 |
Somatic symptoms | 7.20 | 5.19-9.99 | 4.75 | 4.04-5.56 | 4.14 | 3.70-4.64 | 4.60 | 4.00-5.30 | 4.93 | 3.78-6.44 | 3.80 | 3.28-4.42 | 8.50 | 7.69-9.40 |