diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2
index 26b7908b0..f074fad7b 100644
--- a/man2/stat.2
+++ b/man2/stat.2
@@ -183,11 +183,12 @@ For performance and simplicity reasons, different fields in the
 structure may contain state information from different moments
 during the execution of the system call.
 For example, if
-.IR st_mode ,
+.IR st_mode
+or
 .IR st_uid
-and
-.IR st_gid
-are changed by another process by calling
+is changed by another process by calling
+.BR chmod (2)
+or
 .BR chown (2),
 .BR stat ()
 might return the old