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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2017 Sep 5;30(2):10.1111/nmo.13196. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13196

TABLE 1.

Prevalence of transit delays and contractility abnormalities in patients with suspected diabetic or idiopathic gastroparesis

Measure All patients
N (%) or Median (IQR)
Diabetic patients
N (%) or Median (IQR)
Idiopathic patients
N (%) or Median (IQR)
P value diabetic vs idiopathic patients
Transit measures
 Delayed scintigraphic 4 h solid retention >10% 132/194 (68.8%) 48/66 (72.7%) 84/126 (66.7%) .42
 Rapid scintigraphic 1 h solid retention <38% 6/188 (3.2%) 4/66 (6.1%) 2/124 (1.6%) .18
 Delayed scintigraphic 1 h liquid retention >50% 48/137 (34.8%) 14/44 (31.8%) 34/94 (36.2%) .70
 Delayed WMC GET >5 h 81/201 (40.3%) 34/66 (51.5%) 42/128 (32.8%) .01
 Rapid WMC GET <1:45 h 10/201 (5.0%) 2/66 (3.0%) 8/128 (6.2%) .50
 WMC SBTT (h) 4.05 (3.19, 5.39) 3.55 (2.85, 4.69) 4.12 (3.30, 5.68) .01
 Delayed WMC SBTT >6 h 26/168 (15.5%) 4/49 (8.2%) 21/114 (18.4%) .15
 Rapid WMC SBTT <2:15 h 8/168 (4.8%) 4/49 (8.2%) 4/114 (3.5%) .24
 WMC CTT (h) 41.6 (20.6, 67.7) 45.9 (21.9, 64.0) 38.7 (20.3, 69.2) .73
 Delayed WMC CTT >59 h 55/164 (33.5%) 17/49 (34.7%) 36/111 (32.4%) .86
 WMC delays in ≥2 regions 38/163 (23.3%) 10/47 (21.3%) 26/113 (23.0%) 1.00
Contractility measures
 Gastric contractions/h 56 (27, 119) 49 (35, 120) 56 (24, 119) .70
 Reduced gastric contractions (<29/h) 41/160 (25.6%) 9/45 (20.0%) 31/107 (29.0%) .31
 Gastric motility index (MI) 11.5 (10.3, 12.6) 11.6 (10.4, 12.6) 11.5 (9.9, 12.6) .67
 Reduced gastric MI (<9.82) 33/154 (21.4%) 6/45 (13.3%) 26/107 (24.3%) .19
 Small bowel contractions/h 137.5 (67, 230) 148 (86, 303) 136 (65, 206) .17
 Reduced small bowel contractions (<36/h) 20/146 (13.7%) 3/41 (7.3%) 17/105 (16.2%) .19
 Small bowel motility index (MI) 12.7 (11.4, 13.8) 12.9 (11.8, 14.4) 12.6 (11.1, 13.5) .11
 Reduced small bowel MI (<10.57) 24/146 (16.4%) 5/41 (12.2%) 19/105 (18.1%) .46
 Colon contractions/h 125 (87, 163) 108 (80, 155) 129 (91, 165) .30

N, sample size; IQR, interquartile range.