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 2

Taste, smell, HAMA, and HAMD scores and lower gastrointestinal symptoms rating score in the 3 study groups (healthy controls, functional constipation, and irritable bowel syndrome).

	Healthy controls ()	FC ()	IBS ()
Taste score (out of 10 points) ()
value vs. healthy controls		,	,
Smell score(out of 6 points) ()
value vs. healthy controls		,	,
HAMA(out of 64 points) ()
value vs. healthy controls		,	,
HAMD (out of 72 points) ()
value vs. healthy controls		,	,
LGSRS (out of 30 points) ()
value vs. healthy controls		,	,

FC: functional constipation; IBS: irritable bowel syndrome; LGSRS: lower gastrointestinal symptoms rating scale.