Table 1.

Respiratory pause duration for barium and nonbarium liquid stimuli.

Barium condition	Consistency	Thickener	M (s)	SD	95% confidence interval
					Lower bound	Upper bound
Nonbarium	Thin	None	0.81	0.34	0.74	0.89
	Slightly thick	Gum	0.79	0.37	0.71	0.87
		Starch	0.84	0.40	0.75	0.93
	Mildly thick	Gum	0.74	0.32	0.67	0.81
		Starch	0.75	0.33	0.68	0.82
	Moderately thick	Gum	0.88	0.38	0.80	0.97
		Starch	0.73	0.24	0.68	0.79
	Extremely thick	Gum	0.80	0.35	0.72	0.87
		Starch	0.74	0.32	0.66	0.81
Grand mean nonbarium			0.78	0.34	0.76	0.81
Barium	Thin	None	0.72	0.23	0.67	0.77
	Slightly thick	Gum	0.75	0.26	0.69	0.81
		Starch	0.71	0.26	0.65	0.76
	Mildly thick	Gum	0.77	0.31	0.70	0.84
		Starch	0.75	0.28	0.69	0.81
	Moderately thick	Gum	0.72	0.28	0.66	0.78
		Starch	0.74	0.29	0.68	0.81
	Extremely thick	Gum	0.75	0.32	0.68	0.82
		Starch	0.67	0.25	0.62	0.73
Grand mean barium			0.73	0.28	0.71	0.75