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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2020 Jan 20;32(4):e13779. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13779

Table 2. Gastric, small intestinal, and colonic transit.

Unless stated otherwise, all values are Mean ± SD

Rapid GE1 only
(n=102)
Rapid GE2 only
(n=36)
Rapid GE1 and GE2
(n=73)
Normal GE1 and GE2
(n=2075)
Gastric emptying at 1 hour 40 ± 8 29 ± 6 48 ± 14 19 ±7
Gastric emptying at 2 hours 67 ± 10 82 ± 6 85 ± 7 47±13
Gastric emptying at 4 hours 94 ± 7 98 ± 3 98 ± 2 86 ± 11
Small bowel transit (CF6)
n (%) 99 (97%) 35 (97%) 71 (97%) 2062 (99%)
Value 45 ± 32 47 ± 29 51 ± 32 46 ± 29
Geometric center at 24 hours (GC24)
n (%) 79 (78%) 27 (75%) 61 (84%) 1692 (82%)
Value 2.4 ± 1.1 2.1 ± 0.7 2.4 ± 1.1 2.1 ± 11
Delayed GC24 (<1.6), n (%) 13 (13%) 3 (7%) 5 (7%) 406 (20%)*
Accelerated GC24 (>3.8), n (%) 12 (12%) 1 (1%) 9 (12%) 174 (8%)

CF6 = colonic filling at hours; GC24 = geometric center for colonic transit at 24 hours

*

P<.05 versus rapid GE