Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients on long-term oral anticoagulation therapy: Endoscopic findings, clinical management and outcome

Table 1 Clinical characteristics and outcome in patients with AUGIB while on oral anticoagulant therapy.

	Patients taking anticoagulants (n = 111)		Patients not taking anticoagulant (n = 604)
	n	(%)	n	(%)
Age, in year (±SD)1	67.7 (11.3)		62.9 (17.5)
Male/female	69/42		490/146
NSAIDs use	35	31.5	404	63.5
Coexisting illnesses (overall)	111	100	368	57.8
Blood transfusions	2.1	2.3	1.6	1.6
Hospitalization days	7.7	3.3	5.9	4.1
Emergency surgery (overall)	6/111	5.4	23/604	3.8
Total mortality (overall)	4/111	3.6	20/604	3.3

¹P = 0.001, ²P = 0.006.