Panic Attack during Elective Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Table 1

Demographic and clinical data of the patients.

	Males	Females
Patients (𝑛)	35	44
Age (mean yrs)	57 (range 31–77)	54 (range 24–80)
EGD (𝑛)	20	25
CS (𝑛)	15	19
Trait anxiety ± SD	39.86 ± 7.46	43.68 ± 6.95*
State anxiety ± SD	44.17 ± 7.43	48.14 ± 7.94*
Panic attacks (𝑛)	5	7

𝑛: number, EGD: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, CS: Colonoscopy, SD: Standard deviation.
* 𝑃<0.05 versus males.