Journal of gastroenterology
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Potent inhibitory effect of alcoholic beverages upon gastrointestinal passage of food and gallbladder emptying.
Current knowledge about the effect of alcoholic beverages on postprandial functioning of the digestive system is scarce and inconsistent. This study addresses their influence upon meal movement along the gut and meal-induced gallbladder emptying. ⋯ Alcoholic beverages exert an inhibitory effect upon the gastric emptying of a solid food and the meal-induced gallbladder emptying, whereas the effect upon the orocecal transit depends on the type of a beverage-whisky elicits a delay but beer or red wine are devoid of this effect.