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Published in final edited form as: Surg Endosc. 2014 Jul 24;29(3):522–528. doi: 10.1007/s00464-014-3733-1

Table 3.

Correlations between preoperative patient variables and baseline EGJ distensibility as measured by FLIP.

Variable	r_s	p-value
Duration of symptoms	.24	.07
Prior endoscopic treatment	27	.07
Eckardt symptom score	−.32	<.05
EGJ expiratory pressure	−.52	<.001
EGJ integrated relaxation Pressure	−.47	.001
Esophagram contrast column height	−.37	<.05