Responses to faecal microbiota transplantation in female and male patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Table 8 Fatigue Assessment Scale total scores of females and males irritable bowel syndrome patients belonging to different irritable bowel syndrome-subtypes

Time after FMT	IBS-D			IBS-C			IBS-M
	Females	Males	P value	Females	Males	P value	Females	Males	P value
2 wk	30.1 ± 3.6	27.0 ± 3.6	0.04	28.0 ± 6.3	29.3 ± 7.4	0.5	26.7 ± 5.4	26.3 ± 2.1	0.9
1 mo	27.1 ± 5.2	26.6 ± 4.6	0.6	27.1 ± 6.7	31.3 ± 6.1	0.1	28.3 ± 8.3	28.3 ± 4.0	0.9
3 mo	27.5 ± 5.7	27.8 ± 5.0	0.4	26.0 ± 6.2	29.2 ± 5.0	0.2	26.8 ± 7.6	24.8 ± 2.2	0.7

Data are mean ± SD values. IBS-D: Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea-predominant symptom; IBS-C: Irritable bowel syndrome with constipation-predominant symptom; IBS-M: Irritable bowel syndrome with mixed diarrhoea and constipation; FMT: Faecal microbiota transplantation.