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Table 1 Cohort demographics

From: Multi-omics profiles of the intestinal microbiome in irritable bowel syndrome and its bowel habit subtypes

 

HC (N = 177)

IBS (N = 318)

P value

Samples

 16S rRNA sequencing

174

312

 

 Metatranscriptomics

119

208

 

 Metabolomics

139

229

 

Gender

 Male

40%

23%

0.00013

 Female

60%

77%

 

Age

30 (23–38)

29 (23–41)

0.57

BMI

26.9 (23.4–30.2)

23.4 (21.0–26.0)

3 × 10−12

Race/ethnicity

 Non-Hispanic white

31%

52%

0.00016

 Hispanic

25%

20%

 

 African-American

12%

7%

 

 Asian

21%

14%

 

 Multiracial

10%

7%

 

Education

 Some high school

1%

1%

0.12

 High school grad

7%

6%

 

 Some college

28%

39%

 

 College grad

33%

24%

 

 Any postgrad

31%

30%

 

Diet

 Standard

79%

55%

0.0005

 Restrictive

8%

30%

 

 Other

13%

15%

 

HAD-Anxiety

3 (1–6)

7 (4–10)

8 × 10−14

HAD-Depression

1 (0–3)

2 (1–5)

7 × 10−6

STAI Trait Anxiety

32 (26–38)

37 (27–44)

0.0055

PILL

4 (2–7)

16 (11–22)

< 2 × 10−16

VSI

2 (0–8)

40 (28–54)

< 2 × 10−16

Bowel habit subtype

 IBS-D

 

38%

 

 IBS-C

 

35%

 

 IBS-M

 

17%

 

 IBS-U

 

9%

 

IBS-SSS

 

241 (184–312)

 
  1. Values shown as median (interquartile range); p values calculated by the Mann-Whitney U test (numerical traits) or Fisher’s exact test (categorical traits)