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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 2.

Relation of WMC GET to abnormalities of other measures

Measure Normal GET (≤5 h)
N (%)
Delayed GET (>5 h)
N (%)
P value
Transit measures
 Delayed scintigraphic solid gastric emptying (>10% 4-h retention) 74/116 (63.8%) 58/76 (76.3%) .08
 Severely delayed scintigraphic solid gastric emptying (>35% 4-h retention) 18/116 (15.5%) 25/76 (32.9%) .007
 Delayed scintigraphic liquid gastric emptying (>50% 1-h retention) 26/84 (31.0%) 22/54 (40.7%) .27
 Delayed WMC SBTT (>6 h) 12/110 (10.9%) 13/53 (24.5%) .04
 Delayed WMC CTT (>59 h) 36/106 (34.0%) 17/54 (31.5%) .53
Contractility measures
 Gastric contractions/h 64 (38, 130) 35 (11, 61) .02
 Reduced gastric contractions (<29/h) 18/105 (17.1%) 23/50 (46.0%) .0003
 Gastric motility index (MI) 11.7 (10.7, 12.7) 10.6 (8.7, 11.9) .0004
 Reduced gastric MI (<9.82) 16/105 (15.2%) 17/50 (34.0%) .01
 Small bowel contractions/h 138 (77, 223) 124 (63, 255) .92
 Reduced small bowel contractions (<36/h) 13/104 (12.5%) 7/45 (15.6%) .81
 Small bowel motility index (MI) 12.7 (11.6, 13.8) 12.6 (11.3, 14.0) .74
 Reduced small bowel MI (<10.57) 16/104 (15.4%) 8/45 (17.8%) .92
 Colon contractions/h 130 (91, 192) 115 (86, 139) .02

N, sample size