Epidemiology of Functional Abdominal Bloating and Its Impact on Health Related Quality of Life: Male-Female Stratified Propensity Score Analysis in a Population Based Survey in Mainland China

• Meijing Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meijing Wu, Yanfang Zhao, Rui Wang

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Yanfang Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meijing Wu, Yanfang Zhao, Rui Wang

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Rui Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meijing Wu, Yanfang Zhao, Rui Wang

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Wenxin Zheng,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Xiaojing Guo,

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Shunquan Wu,

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Xiuqiang Ma,

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Jia He

  * E-mail: hejia63@yeah.net

  Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

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