|
Soft stools
|
Hard stools
|
Strain to have BM
|
Pain to have BM
|
Blood seen with BM
|
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Stage
|
Mean
|
SEM
|
Mean
|
SEM
|
Mean
|
SEM
|
Mean
|
SEM
|
Mean
|
SEM
|
Non-cocoa
|
1.29
|
0.09
|
2.01
|
0.10
|
1.44
|
0.09
|
0.72
|
0.08
|
0.09
|
0.03
|
Cocoa product A
|
1.27
|
0.12
|
2.09
|
0.16
|
1.48
|
0.14
|
0.66
|
0.11
|
0.14
|
0.05
|
Cocoa product B
|
1.52
|
0.12
|
1.91
|
0.15
|
1.41
|
0.13
|
0.72
|
0.11
|
0.09
|
0.04
|
|
N.S.
|
N.S.
|
N.S.
|
N.S.
|
N.S.
|
- BM, bowel movement. A 4-point scale was used to answer where 0 = never, 1 = rarely, 2 = sometimes, 3 = frequently and 4 = always.
- Effects were evaluated using a generalized estimating equations with repeated measures (stage) and one fixed factor (cocoa product) were applied. Where there was a significant main effect, post hoc Bonferroni tests were also used to analyse differences between means.