Prevalence of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders according to Rome III Criteria in Italian Morbidly Obese Patients

Table 2

Shows the frequency intensity scores of the studied GI symptoms such as epigastric pressure, belching, nausea, cough, non cardiac chest pain, dysphagia for liquids, dysphagia for solids, regurgitation, and heartburn in Obese Patients with and without BE behavior pattern data were expressed as Mean ± SE.

	BE behavior pattern	No BE behavior pattern	𝑃
Epigastric pressure	0.57±0.20	0.40±0.14	0.56
Belching	0.38±0.18	0.53±0.15	0.62
Nausea	0.19±0.13	0.03±0.03	0.05
Cough	0.09±0.09	0.12±0.09	0.88
Non cardiac chest pain	0.18±0.12	0.08±0.06	0.41
Dysphagia for liquids	0.00±0.00	0.03±0.02	0.60
Dysphagia for solids	0.00±0.00	0.13±0.08	0.37
Regurgitation	0.91±0.36	1.27±0.22	0.43
Heartburn	1.00±0.37	1.26±0.20	0.55