Data
98,842 items of data are available, covering 98,842 participants, encoded using Data-Coding
503.
Notes
Question asked: "Have you had this discomfort or pain 6 months or longer?"
Question was asked when Field 21025 was neither "Never" nor "Prefer not to answer".
The question in this field was taken from the Diagnostic Criteria for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) developed by the Rome Foundation on Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, used under licence.
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