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Table 6 Gastric motility parameters in children with abdominal migraine according to exposure to stress

From: Abdominal migraine in children: association between gastric motility parameters and clinical characteristics

 

Stressful event positive

Mean (SD)

Stressful events negative

Mean (SD)

p value *

Fasting antral area (cm2)

1.5 (0.5)

1.9 (1.6)

0.8

Gastric emptying rate (%)

43.8 (6.1)

40.2 (16.3)

0.6

Amplitude of antral contractions (%)

50.2 (12.1)

63.1 (17.1)

0.2

Frequency of antral contractions (/3 min)

8.7 (0.5)

8.8 (1.0)

0.7

Antral motility index

4.3 (1.0)

5.5 (1.7)

0.2

  1. *Mann Whitney U test