Pan-enteric dysmotility, impaired quality of life and alexithymia in a large group of patients meeting ROME II criteria for irritable bowel syndrome

Figure 6 Time-course of gastric emptying in IBS patients and healthy subjects after ingestion of 200 mL of standard liquid meal. Symbols indicate mean (SE is very small and not visible at each time-point). IBS patients had impaired emptying with larger postprandial antral areas (expressed as% of basal area) than healthy subjects. See also Table 2 for half-emptying time differences.