A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial: The Efficacy of Multispecies Probiotic Supplementation in Alleviating Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Associated with Constipation

Table 3

Demographic and baseline characteristics of the subjects of the clinical study. Data are mean SE.

	F_1	F_2	F_3
Number of subjects	50	50	50
Age	36.0 11.9	38.0 12.1	38.1 13.5
Bloating (VAS)	6.3 0.2	6.2 0.2	6.1 0.2
Abdominal pain	5.0 0.2	4.9 0.2	4.8 0.2
Constipation	6.6 0.1	6.5 0.1	6.1 0.2
Abdominal cramps	4.2 0.2	3.9 0.2	4.1 0.2
Flatulence	4.6 0.3	4.4 0.2	4.4 0.2

There were no statistically significant differences between the three groups.