[The relationship between oral glucose tolerance and gastric emptying in duodenal ulcer patients (author's transl)].

In 50 patients with duodenal ulcer disease before the operation and early postoperatively after SPV there were performed simultaneously 54 measurements of halflife of gastric emptying (T 1/2) and of pattern of oral glucose tolerance curve. It could be shown that there is a close relationship between the type of disturbance of gastric emptying and the pattern of glucose curve. In addition it could be proved that there is a significant correlation between the T 1/2 and the 180-min.-glucose concentration.