Table 3.
Descriptive statistics for the timing of maximum pharyngeal constriction, expressed as a percentage of upper esophageal sphincter opening duration.
Consistency | M | SD | 95% confidence interval |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Lower bound | Upper bound | |||
Thin | 49.5 | 12.1 | 46.6 | 52.4 |
Slightly thick | 48.8 | 11.0 | 46.1 | 51.5 |
Mildly thick | 48.9 | 11.5 | 46.2 | 51.5 |
Moderately thick | 44.3 | 10.1 | 41.5 | 47.1 |
Extremely thick | 44.1 | 10.2 | 41.3 | 46.8 |