Identification of patients with moderate medically unexplained physical symptoms in primary care with a five years follow-up

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study population in index year

	Study population	Chronic MUPS	Moderate MUPS	Mild MUPS	Non MUPS	Significance
	(n = 11.419)	(n = 61; 0.5%)	(n = 273; 2.4%)	(n = 455; 4.0%)	(n = 10.630; 93.1%)	(p-value)
Female, n (%)	5.779 (50.6%)	45 (73.8%)	191 (70%)	318 (69.9%)	5.225 (49.2%)	< 0.001^a
Mean age in years (SD)	41.7 (12.5)	42.5 (11.9)	41.1 (12.0)	41.4 (11.9)	41.8 (12.5)	> 0.05^b

^aDifferences between MUPS classifications evaluated with Pearson’s Chi-square test.^bDifferences between MUPS classifications evaluated with Kruskal-Wallis test

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