Table 2.

Dietary Information [Data presented as medians (IQR) and number of subjects for whom data were available]

Dietary Factor	Clear Liquid Diet (n=66)	Low-fat Solid Diet (n=55)	P Value
Time (days) between hospital admission and randomization	2 (1–3) n=66	2 (1–3) n=55	0.99
Time (hrs) between randomization and first meal	1 (1–2) n=65	2 (1–3) n=55	0.36
Total number of meals consumed per patient on study day 1	2 (1–2) n=66	2 (1–2) n=55	0.71
Calories consumed with first meal	157 (114–207) n=45	350 (165–469) n=36	<0.001
Fat (g) consumed with first meal	1 (0–1) n=42	5 (2–11) n=35	<0.001
Calories consumed on study day 1	301 (233–544) n=45	622 (442–827) n=32	<0.001
Fat (g) consumed on study day 1	2 (1–4) n=39	13 (6–21) n=31	<0.001

IQR = Inter-quartile range