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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2016 Aug 31;29(2):10.1111/nmo.12919. doi: 10.1111/nmo.12919

Table 2.

Colorectal physiologic measures

US Cohort FI (n=60) No FI (n=244) p value
Colorectal urge threshold (Z-score) 0.02±1.2 −0.03±1.0 0.9
Colorectal pain threshold (Z-score) −0.11±1.1 −0.04±1.0 0.7
Smooth muscle tone (Z-score) −0.12±0.9 −0.02±0.9 0.5
Motility index, distention 964±960 961±574 0.9
Motility index, post-meal 692±465 594±501 0.2
Swedish cohort FI (n=23) No FI (n=145) p-value
Rectal urge threshold (mmHg) 18.5±7.2 19.5±7.0 0.5
Rectal pain threshold (mmHg) 26.7±10.2 27.2±8.6 0.8
Compliance (P1/2) (mmHg) 16.1±6.0 15.3±5.5 0.5
Colonic transit time (days) 1.4±1.1 1.5±1.0 0.7