lactose malabsorbers with diarrhoea during the lactose tolerance test had a small bowel transit time of 51 +/- 22 minutes ( x +/- sd ; n = 90 ) which was significantly shorter than the small bowel transit time of patients with colicky pain , flatulence , and abdominal distension ( 74 +/- 30 , n = 53 ; p less than 0.001 ) and both groups had significantly shorter small bowel transit time than that of asymptomatic malabsorbers ( 115 +/- 21 n:7 ;
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bowel
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colicky pain