Table 1.

Demographics of Patients with Ulcers vs All Patients who had an EGD 2000–2004

	Peptic Ulcer	All EGDs
Total Patient	3,692	243,427
	N (%)	N (%)
Gender
Male	2,584 (70.0%)	120,186 (49.4%)
Female	1,108 (30.0%)	123,241 (50.6%)
Gender (exclude VA sites)
Male	1,742 (61.7%)	91,173 (43.0%)
Female	1,082 (38.3%)	120,657 (57.0%)
Race/Ethnicity
White Non-Hispanic	2,631 (71.3%)	189,796 (78.0%)
Black Non-Hispanic	353 (9.6%)	17,705 (7.3%)
Hispanic	369 (10.0%)	18,473 (7.6%)
Asian/Pacific Islander	154 (4.2%)	4,629 (1.9%)
Native American	84 (2.3%)	2,874 (1.2%)
Multi-racial	6 (0.2%)	412 (0.2%)
Unknown	95 (2.6%)	9,538 (3.9%)
Mean Age (yrs)	65.2	57.8
Site Type
Community/HMO	1,852 (50.2%)	172,972 (71.1%)
Academic	972 (26.3%)	38,858 (16.0%)
VA/Military	868 (23.5%)	31,597 (13.0%)