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Categorical variables were compared using Pearson\u2019s \u03c7\u00b2 test.\nResults: Eighty-four students (47.7%) met the symptom-based Rome III criteria. The IBS-related symptoms group included 75 females (89.3%) compared with 54 (58.7%) in the comparison group (p&amp;lt;0.001). Sweets consumption at least four times weekly was reported by 53 (63.1%) and 45 (48.9%) students, respectively (p = 0.021). Test-anxiety distributions differed between groups (p &amp;lt; 0.001); extremely high anxiety was reported by 12 (14.3%) students with IBS-related symptoms and one (1.1%) without symptoms. Other sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics were not associated with IBS-related symptoms.\nConclusion: IBS-related symptoms were frequent in this medical-student sample and were associated with female sex, frequent sweets consumption, and test anxiety. 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