Defining the advantages and exposing the limitations of endoscopic variceal ligation in controlling acute bleeding and achieving complete variceal eradication

Table 4 Specific risk factors for rebleeding on multivariate analysis

	Total, n = 140	No rebleeding, n = 104	Rebleeding, n = 36	P value
Age				0.149
20-39 yr	36	30	6
40-59 yr	74	50	24
> 60 yr	30	24	6
Gender				0.112
Male	100	78	22
Female	40	26	14
Child-Pugh grade				0.965
A	32	24	8
B	48	35	13
C	60	45	15
Cause of varices				0.343
Alcoholic	84	60	24
Non-Alcoholic	56	44	12