Somatic Comorbidity in Chronic Constipation: More Data from the GECCO Study

Figure 1

Constipated individuals matching Rome III criteria for IBS (IBS-C: ) or for functional constipation (FC-R, ), or not (FC: ). (a) With acknowledged somatic comorbidity (, inner circle); (b) with presumed comorbid condition (, inner circle). Note that nearly half of individuals matching diagnostic criteria demonstrated either somatic comorbidity or presumed somatic comorbidity.

(a) Comorbidity ()

(b) Presumed comorbidity ()