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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Spinal Cord. 2010 Mar 9;48(10):718–733. doi: 10.1038/sc.2010.14

Table 3.

Dietary Fibre

Author Year; Country
Score
Research Design
Total Sample Size		 Methods Outcome
Cameron et al. 1996;24 Australia
Downs & Black score=10
Case Series
N=11		 Population: Age range: 19–53yrs; Level of injury: C4-T12; 1 incomplete and 10 complete; 7 tetraplegics and 4 paraplegics.
Treatment: Increased fibre intake (40g Kellogg’s All Bran).
OM: Stool weight, CTT and segmental transit time, bowel evacuation time and fibre intake.

  1. Fibre intake increased from 25g to 31g per day.

  2. Mean CTT increased from 28.2 hours to 42.2 hours.

  3. Rectosigmoid CTT increased from 7.9 to 23.3 hours.

  4. No change in stool weight and evacuation time.

OM = Outcome measures; CTT = colonic transit time