Feel bowel completely empty | Have BM once per day | Pass gas during day | Have crampy abdominal pain | Have haemorrhoid problems | ||||||
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Stage | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM |
Non-cocoa | 2.67 | 0.10 | 2.93a | 0.10 | 2.14 | 0.09 | 1.20 | 0.08 | 0.39 | 0.06 |
Cocoa product A | 2.73 | 0.11 | 3.09a | 0.13 | 2.07 | 0.15 | 1.09 | 0.11 | 0.32 | 0.08 |
Cocoa product B | 2.75 | 0.12 | 3.27a | 0.11 | 2.32 | 0.14 | 1.27 | 0.12 | 0.34 | 0.09 |
N.S. | p = 0.009 | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. |