Home-Based Transcutaneous Neuromodulation Improved Constipation via Modulating Gastrointestinal Hormones and Bile Acids

Table 4

The Spearman correlation coefficient of the level of plasma gastrointestinal hormones, the levels of plasma bile acids, and the scores of questionnaires of the FC patients before TN treatment (r-s, P).

	FSBM		BSS		PAC-SYM		PAC-QOL
5-HT	−0.20	0.45	0.02	0.93	0.23	0.38	−0.12	0.65
Motilin	−0.20	0.45	0.02	0.94	0.00	0.99	−0.15	0.56
VIP	−0.01	0.96	0.40	0.11	0.06	0.83	0.10	0.71
Somatostatin	−0.07	0.78	0.21	0.41	−0.12	0.64	0.33	0.19
TDCA	0.15	0.58	−0.21	0.43	−0.33	0.19	−0.10	0.71
TCA	0.10	0.71	0.11	0.67	−0.31	0.22	−0.19	0.47
TLCA	−0.01	0.96	−0.30	0.24	0.00	1.00	−0.41	0.11

; r-s, Spearman correlation coefficient.