TABLE 3.

Leukocyte trafficking (A), stress hormone response, gastrointestinal integrity and functional responses, systemic endotoxin (B), inflammatory cytokine profiles (C), gastrointestinal symptoms (GIS) (D) and feeding tolerance (E) in response to the gastrointestinal assessment during exercise (GastroAxEx) in endurance athletes experiencing EIGS with severe GIS and endurance athletes not experiencing EIGS and presenting minimal GIS (controls).

Data are presented as individual raw values. For gastrointestinal symptoms (GIS) and feeding tolerance data are presented as overall individual athlete summative accumulation of rating scale point score of measured time periods and individual reported range. NR: not recorded, NTP: no turning point, OCTT: orocecal transit time.