Demographic and Clinical Data
dysphagia
DYSPHAGIA
A total of 975 SBCE procedures were performed in our department during the study period. Eighteen patients were excluded from the study; 13 patients had previous gastric surgery and 5 patients had dysphagia, thus the capsule was introduced directly into the duodenum through upper endoscopy using a capsule endoscope delivery device—the AdvanCE® (US Endoscopy, Mentor, OH, USA). The remaining 957 patients were included in the study analysis. Prolonged gastric transit time occurred in 4.7% of the patients (45/957 patients). We randomly selected a total of 90 participants as controls among the 912 eligible patients without PGTT, as explained in the methods.Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with PGTT are listed in 