Research Article
A School-Based Study of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Medical Students in Beijing, China: Prevalence and Some Related Factors
Table 1
Characteristics of medical students with or without IBS n (%).
| | | Total
() | IBS
() | Non-IBS
() | | value |
| | Sex | | | | 8.151 | 0.005 | | Male | 196 (25.6%) | 49 (19.2%) | 147 (28.8%) | | | | Female | 571 (74.4%) | 206 (80.8%) | 365 (71.2%) | | | | Age (yr) | | | | −2.267 | 0.024 | | Height (m) | | | | −2.975 | 0.005 | |
Weight (kg) | | | | −0.816 | 0.459 | | BMI (kg/m2) | | | | 0.862 | 0.389 | | Nationality | | | | 0.086 | 0.881 | | Han | 713 (93.0%) | 238 (93.3%) | 475 (92.8%) | | | | Minority | 54 (7.0%) | 17 (6.7%) | 37 (7.2%) | | | | Grade | | | | 1.617 | 0.220 | | Low | 251 (32.6%) | 91 (35.7%) | 160 (31.1%) | | | | High | 516 (67.4%) | 164 (64.3%) | 352 (68.9%) | | |
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IBS: irritable bowel syndrome.
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