Gastroenterology service in a teaching hospital in rural New Zealand, 1991-2003

Figure 5 Gastroscopic findings. The number of ulcers, healed ulcers and scarring/strictures (^bP < 0.001) for all) and the proportion of normal findings (^dP = 0.006) decreased significantly over the years. Findings of inflammatory changes and hiatus hernia fluctuated significantly across the years (chi-squared ^fP < 0.001 and ^hP < 0.005, respectively) (^fP = 0.148 and ^hP = 0.478, respectively).