Maintenance Therapy with Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum in the Conservative Treatment of Chronic Anal Fissure: Results of a Prospective, Randomized Study

Table 1

Patients characteristics.

Patient characteristics	Group I	Group II
Patients	73	70
Gender (M/F)	40/30	41/32
Mean age (yrs)	45 (5.2)	45 (4.3)
Range of age	19–67	21–68

Values are expressed as number of patients and means with standard deviation in parentheses.