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Table 1 Numbers and weighted prevalence rates (%) of stomach symptoms by gender

From: Epidemiology of gastrointestinal symptoms in young and middle-aged Swiss adults: prevalences and comorbidities in a longitudinal population cohort over 28 years

  

N

M + F%

M%

F%

p

Pain, burn, pressure

subacute≥1 week

65

9.3

7.9

10.8

0.012

 

chronic≥3 months

51

8.8

4.1

13.2

< 0.001

 

subacute+chronic

116

18.1

12.0

24.0

< 0.001

Nausea, vomitus

subacute≥1 week

36

7.0

4.8

9.0

< 0.001

 

chronic≥3 months

40

5.5

0.6

10.1

< 0.001

 

subacute+chronic

76

11.0

4.5

19.1

< 0.001

Pain, burn, pressure with nausea, vomitus

subacute≥1 week

35

4.9

2.9

7.1

< 0.001

chronic≥3 months

33

5.0

0.6

9.0

< 0.001

subacute+chronic

68

9.9

3.5

16.1

< 0.001

Any symptoms

subacute≥1 week

54

11.6

11.0

12.2

0.385

 

chronic≥3 months

76

9.3

4.2

14.2

< 0.001

 

subacute+chronic

130

20.9

15.2

26.4

< 0.001

  1. Legend: n = number in the sample, prevalences: rates, back-weighted to the general population, M = male, F = female, p = type I error that the prevalences of m and f are different (two-sided)