title: Gastric emptying in obesity.
abstract: The gastric emptying, expressed as the half-emptying time (T1/2) and mean transit time (MTT90), in 31 obese and 21 control women was studied using a radionuclide technique. No correlation between body weight and body surface area and gastric emptying rates could be found. T1/2 was slightly shorter and MTT90 faster in the obese women than in the controls. There is little chance that a subtle difference in gastric emptying is of any importance in the pathogenesis of obesity.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005746:Gastric Emptying; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013997:Time Factors