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These patients had significantly higher serum concentrations of unconjugated cholic acid (median 0.18; range 0.05-30.75 v 0.09; 0.01-0.19 mumol\/l, p less than 0.001) and chenodeoxycholic acid (0.10; 0.01-6.83 v 0.04; 0.01-0.39 mumol\/l, p less than 0.025) than healthy controls (n = 16). This difference was mainly due to patients with diarrhoea (n = 10), who had significantly higher concentrations of unconjugated serum bile acids than patients with normal bowel habit (cholic acid median 0.55 v 0.16 mumol\/l, p less than 0.001; chenodeoxycholic acid 0.75 v 0.07 mumol\/l; p less than 0.005). All patients with raised unconjugated serum bile acids had oesophageal motility disorders. 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