FIGURE 3.

Box‐plots showing comparisons of (a) gastric emptying time, (b) small bowel transit time, (c) colonic transit time and (d) whole‐gut transit time between diabetes patients with constipation, without constipation and healthy controls. Statistical significance of p ≤ 0.05 are marked by * and p < 0.01 by **. Full results are presented in Table 2. To summarise, we found faster gastric emptying (a) and whole gut transit (d) in healthy controls than in both diabetes groups. We also found faster colonic transit (c) in healthy controls than in diabetes patients without constipation, but found no difference in small bowel transit (b). Neither did we find any difference when comparing transit times between diabetes patients with and without constipation