Bowel Patterns Among Subjects Not Seeking g Health Care

摘要: To understand the disorders of bowel motility, it is important to know range patterns in general population. We have devised a brief selfadministered questionnaire which, when used among group 789 students and hospital employees, disclosed that 94.2% had stool frequencies between three per day week, 17.1% dysfunction. When compared with remaining sample, dysfunction was predominantly female. This also reported more often stress influenced their function, laxatives visited physicians for complaints. Further medical evaluation characterize this subgroup needed. believe selection, psychologic physiologic study, subjects not seeking health care will provide needed comparison our understanding patients irritable syndrome.