Table 1.

Patient characteristics (comparison of group non-EV without esophageal varices and group EV with esophageal varices found by upper endoscopy)

Parameter	non-EV n = 120	EV n = 72	p-value
Male sex	47%	74%	< 0.001
Age (mean)	57 ± 14	57 ± 13	ns
Hypertensive gastropathy	14%	74%	< 0.0001
Child-Pugh-Classification A	92%	50%	< 0.0001
Child-Pugh-Classification B	3%	26%	< 0.0001
Child-Pugh-Classification C	5%	23%	< 0.001
presence of ascites	6%	44%	< 0.0001