3.1. Baseline Characteristics
maldigestion
Five out of the twenty-three subjects who were phone screened were ineligible to continue in the study due to their current medical condition, lack of milk avoidance and/or presence of metallic implants near the region of the scan. The remaining eighteen were eligible to be assessed for maldigestion with a hydrogen breath test; however, only fifteen subjects responded to attempts to schedule the screening test. Ten out of the fifteen subjects produced a 20 ppm rise in hydrogen during the six-hour milk challenge, indicating maldigestion. These ten subjects completed the two milk-feeding interventions (Seven female subjects and three male subjects of an age range between 19 and 42 and an average BMI of 23 kg/m