Table 2 The categorization of severity among patients with FD, IBS, and FD-IBS overlap before treatment with the combination of RAF of Abs to S 100, Abs to TNF-α and Abs to H
Group | Severity category | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Healthy | Borderline ill | Mildly ill | Moderately ill | Markedly ill | Severely ill | ||
FD N = 2404 | Before therapy n (%) | 0 (0.0) | 161 (6.69) | 778 (32.36) | 740 (30.78) | 431 (17.92) | 294 (12.22) |
IBS N = 5909 | Before therapy n (%) | 0 (0,0) | 214 (3.62) | 1911 (32.34) | 2113 (35.75) | 1036 (17.53) | 635 (10.74) |
FD-IBS overlap N = 941 | Before therapy n (%) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.85) | 133 (14.13) | 383 (40.70) | 241(25.61) | 176(18.70) |