Subjective Taste and Smell Changes in Conjunction with Anxiety and Depression Are Associated with Symptoms in Patients with Functional Constipation and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Table 1

Demographics and characteristics of the three groups (healthy controls, functional constipation, and irritable bowel syndrome) in this study.

	Overall ()	Healthy controls ()	FC ()	IBS ()
Gender
Male ()	159	45	60	54	2.099	0.350
Female ()	178	51	55	72
Age (years, )					1.744	0.087
BMI (kg/m^2, )					0.789	0.434

FC: functional constipation; IBS: irritable bowel syndrome; (in m²). No statistically significant difference was noted in age, gender, and BMI.