Table 2.

Total and Regional Gastrointestinal Transit Times Measured With 3D-Transit in Healthy Volunteers and Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients With Carcinoid Diarrhea

	Healthy subjects	NET patients with diarrhea	P-value
Gastrointestinal transit time	25.1 (13.1–142.3)	12.5 (8.5–47.2)	0.007
Gastric emptying	3.8 (2.1–5.7)	3.8 (3.1–4.4)	0.778
Small intestinal transit time	4.4 (1.8–7.2)	3.8 (1.4–5.5)	0.044
Proximal colona	3.6 (0.1–46.3)	0.7 (0.02–26.0)	0.045
Middle/distal colonb	12.6 (0.8–80.4)c	5.1 (1.9–14.1)	0.101
Colorectal transit time	18.1 (5.0–134.0)	5.2 (2.9–40.1)	0.012

^aCecum and ascending colon,

^bTransverse colon, descending colon and rectosigmoid colon,

^cBased on 14 healthy subjects.

NET, neuroendocrine tumor.

Data are given as median (range) in hours.