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A cross‐sectional study of stool form (using Bristol stool chart) in an urban South Indian population

BACKGROUND: There is paucity of data on Bristol stool form (BSF) in healthy South Indian residents. AIM: To determine the BSF types and associated factors in an urban bowel health noncomplainant population. METHODS: This cross‐sectional study, performed using a self‐administered questionnaire among...

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Autores principales: Srinivas, Melpakkam, Srinivasan, Vijaya, Jain, Mayank, Rani Shanthi, Coimbatore Subramanian, Mohan, Viswanathan, Jayanthi, Viswanathan
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Publicado: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12189
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author Srinivas, Melpakkam
Srinivasan, Vijaya
Jain, Mayank
Rani Shanthi, Coimbatore Subramanian
Mohan, Viswanathan
Jayanthi, Viswanathan
author_facet Srinivas, Melpakkam
Srinivasan, Vijaya
Jain, Mayank
Rani Shanthi, Coimbatore Subramanian
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Jayanthi, Viswanathan
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description BACKGROUND: There is paucity of data on Bristol stool form (BSF) in healthy South Indian residents. AIM: To determine the BSF types and associated factors in an urban bowel health noncomplainant population. METHODS: This cross‐sectional study, performed using a self‐administered questionnaire among adult Chennai residents, compared BSF types by gender for various factors (age, occupation, bowel frequency, and defecation‐related abdominal pain). BSF types 1/2 and 6/7 were grouped as hard and loose stools, respectively. The statistical tests used were proportion test, χ (2), and Kruskal–Wallis tests (P < 0.05 deemed significant). RESULTS: The study cohort of 1402 subjects included 748 (53.3%) men and a third each of professionals, semiprofessionals, and “non‐office goers” (homemakers, retirees, students, and unemployed). A total of 97% had daily bowel movement, and 8.5% reported defecation associated abdominal pain. The BSF types in decreasing prevalence were: Type 3 (35.6%), Type 4 (32.5%), Types 1 or 2 (20.5%), Type 5 (6.9%), and Types 6 or 7 (4.5%). On gender comparison, significantly more men passed hard (P = 0.03) or loose stools (P = 0.001), while more women passed Type 3 (P = 0.0002). Loose stools in men were associated with abdominal pain (P = 0.0035). Women passing hard or loose stool types were slightly older (median age in 30s vs. 20s in Types 3–5) and had reduced stool frequency (P = 0.026: hard; P = 0.006: loose). CONCLUSIONS: This South Indian noncomplainant cohort's most common stool types were BSF Types 3 and 4, with few gender variations in extreme stool types.
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spelling pubmed-68910242019-12-12 A cross‐sectional study of stool form (using Bristol stool chart) in an urban South Indian population Srinivas, Melpakkam Srinivasan, Vijaya Jain, Mayank Rani Shanthi, Coimbatore Subramanian Mohan, Viswanathan Jayanthi, Viswanathan JGH Open Original Articles BACKGROUND: There is paucity of data on Bristol stool form (BSF) in healthy South Indian residents. AIM: To determine the BSF types and associated factors in an urban bowel health noncomplainant population. METHODS: This cross‐sectional study, performed using a self‐administered questionnaire among adult Chennai residents, compared BSF types by gender for various factors (age, occupation, bowel frequency, and defecation‐related abdominal pain). BSF types 1/2 and 6/7 were grouped as hard and loose stools, respectively. The statistical tests used were proportion test, χ (2), and Kruskal–Wallis tests (P < 0.05 deemed significant). RESULTS: The study cohort of 1402 subjects included 748 (53.3%) men and a third each of professionals, semiprofessionals, and “non‐office goers” (homemakers, retirees, students, and unemployed). A total of 97% had daily bowel movement, and 8.5% reported defecation associated abdominal pain. The BSF types in decreasing prevalence were: Type 3 (35.6%), Type 4 (32.5%), Types 1 or 2 (20.5%), Type 5 (6.9%), and Types 6 or 7 (4.5%). On gender comparison, significantly more men passed hard (P = 0.03) or loose stools (P = 0.001), while more women passed Type 3 (P = 0.0002). Loose stools in men were associated with abdominal pain (P = 0.0035). Women passing hard or loose stool types were slightly older (median age in 30s vs. 20s in Types 3–5) and had reduced stool frequency (P = 0.026: hard; P = 0.006: loose). CONCLUSIONS: This South Indian noncomplainant cohort's most common stool types were BSF Types 3 and 4, with few gender variations in extreme stool types. Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2019-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6891024/ /pubmed/31832545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12189 Text en © 2019 The Authors. JGH Open: An open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology published by Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Srinivas, Melpakkam
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Jain, Mayank
Rani Shanthi, Coimbatore Subramanian
Mohan, Viswanathan
Jayanthi, Viswanathan
A cross‐sectional study of stool form (using Bristol stool chart) in an urban South Indian population
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title_short A cross‐sectional study of stool form (using Bristol stool chart) in an urban South Indian population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6891024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12189
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