Table 1.

Diagnoses made at OGD performed to investigate dyspepsia: those in bold required OGD to obtain histology or cytology and would not have been appropriately managed by empirical Helicobacter pylori ‘test and treat’ or proton pump inhibitor therapy.

Oesophagus			Stomach			Duodenum
	n	%		n	%		n	%
Ulcer	3	0.6	Ulcer	9	1.8	Ulcer	1	0.2
Malignant tumour	1	0.2	Malignant tumour	4	0.8
Barrett’s oesophagus	39	7.8	Gastritis	268	47.2	Duodenitis	55	11
Candidiasis	10	2	Atrophy	1	0.2
Stricture	7	1.4	GAVE	2	0.4
Oesophagitis	122	24.4	Hiatus hernia	178	35.6
Benign polyps	9	1.8	Benign polyps	34	6.8	Benign polyps	1	0.2
Schatzki ring	4	0.8	PHG	2	0.4
Benign plaques	2	0.4
Diverticula	1	0.2

GAVE, gastric antral vascular ectasia; OGD, oesophagogastroduodenoscopy; PHG, portal hypertensive gastropathy.