Core Mental State in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Panayotis Trikas, MD,
Ioannis Vlachonikolis, MA, DPhil,
Nicholas Fragkiadakis, BSc,
Sofoklis Vasilakis, MD,
Orestis Manousos, MD and
Nicholas Paritsis, MD, PhD
From the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (P.T., N.P.), Biostatistics (I.V.), Internal Medicine (N.F., O.M.), and General Surgery (S.V.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Stavrakia, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

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Fig. 1. Psychiatric profile of 36 patients with IBS ( ) and 28 patients with CC (). Numbers are percentages of patients with rated PSE-ID-CATEGO syndromes. GA = general anxiety; HY = hypochondriasis; IC = loss of interest and concentration; SD = depressed mood; TE = tension; WO = worrying, etc. *p < .05, **p < .01.
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