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

Table 3

End points of the study in the two groups of patients.

End points	Group I	Group II	𝑃 value^a
6-month recurrence rate	30 (41.09)	22 (31.4)	0.29
12-month recurrence rate	13 (30.2)	7 (14.5)	0.0047
12-month success rate	28 (38.3)	41 (58.5)	0.0019

Values are expressed as number of patients with percentages in parentheses.
^aFisher’s exact test.