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. 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