Figure 131-5

Gastrointestinal symptom severity assessed as gastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS) scores (means and 95% confidence intervals) in patients with liver cirrhosis (continuous line, n = 128) and healthy controls (dashed line, n = 2,162) (Kalaitzakis et al., 2006) (reproduced with permission from the publisher Taylor & Francis). Higher scores indicated increased gastrointestinal symptom severity. Patients with liver cirrhosis show increased severity of gastrointestinal symptoms as assessed by the gastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS) compared to controls from the general population. GSRS, gastrointestinal symptom rating scale