Table 2.
Relationship between patient characteristics and retained food in cirrhotics
| Retained food (n = 33) | No retained food (n = 331) | P value1 | |
| Age group | 0.015 | ||
| < 60 yr | 12.6% | 87.4% | |
| ≥ 60 yr | 5.2% | 94.8% | |
| Sex | 0.942 | ||
| Male | 9.3% | 90.7% | |
| Female | 9.0% | 91.0% | |
| Diabetes Mellitus type I or II | 13.2% | 86.8% | 0.066 |
| Opioid use | 21.7% | 78.3% | 0.004 |
| Calcium channel blocker use | 16.7% | 83.3% | 0.173 |
| Child-Pugh class | 0.007 | ||
| A | 6.4% | 93.6% | |
| B | 10.3% | 89.7% | |
| C | 24.1% | 75.9% | |
| Alcoholic cirrhosis | 13.0% | 87.0% | 0.201 |
| Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with cirrhosis | 4.3% | 95.7% | 0.406 |
| Lower platelet count (continuous) | 0.027 | ||
| Portal hypertensive gastropathy | 10.9% | 89.1% | 0.292 |
| Gastric varices | 5.6% | 94.4% | 0.758 |
| Esophageal varices | 11.0% | 89.0% | 0.084 |
| Hepatic encephalopathy | 13.6% | 86.4% | 0.118 |
| Ascites | 10.6% | 89.4% | 0.471 |
| SBP | 13.3% | 86.7% | 0.640 |
| Presence of an upper gastrointestinal symptom | 12.9% | 87.1% | 0.248 |
1
χ2 test or Fisher exact test for categorical variables and t-test/Wilcoxon rank sum test for continuous variables. SBP: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.