. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 18.

Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2016 Jun 10;61(9):2732–2740. doi: 10.1007/s10620-016-4198-y

Table 5.

Characteristics and 30-day outcomes of 76 patients with upper GI bleeding presenting with isolated hematochezia

Characteristic	Cirrhotics N = 29	Non-cirrhotics N = 47	P value
Age (years)	60.3 ± 10.9	63.7 ± 17.2	0.1289
Men (%)	51.7	61.7	0.3921
In-hospital onset of hemorrhage	16 (55.2)	16 (34.0)	0.0699
Major concomitant chronic illness	12 (41.4)	26 (55.3)	0.7779
Aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory use 30-day rate of	3 (10.3)	27 (57.4)	<0.0001
Recurrent bleeding	1 (3.4)	14 (29.8)	0.0051
Surgical interventions	4 (13.8)	3 (6.4)	0.4170
Deaths	7 (24.1)	5 (10.6)	0.1936

Values are numbers (%) of observations