. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 28.

Published in final edited form as: Head Neck. 2012 Aug 21;35(8):1124–1131. doi: 10.1002/hed.23086

TABLE 5.

Means, SE, and p values for the 2-way interaction of salty bolus flavor and subject group, pooled over bolus size.

Pharyngeal transit time(s)	One-month posttreatment evaluation
Pharyngeal transit time(s)	Patients	Control subjects	Difference	SE	p value
No flavor	0.952	0.808	0.144	0.065	.035
Salty flavor	1.063	0.806	0.257	0.067	.0006
Difference	0.111	−0.002	0.113
SE	0.044	0.026
Flavor p value	.018	.93

Abbreviation: SE, standard error.

Statistics are based on a total of 236 swallows in 31 people (9 patients and 22 control subjects).