Clinically significant endoscopic findings in patients of dyspepsia with no warning symptoms: A cross-sectional study

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients with different endoscopic findings and univariate analysis of all relevant variables

	Total, n = 1016	General lesions, n = 712	Esophageal lesions, n = 180	Peptic ulcer, n = 115	Malignancy, n = 9	F value	χ2 value	P value
Age	49.60 ± 15.36	49.51 ± 15.20	52.22 ± 15.19	45.07 ± 15.44	62.33 ± 13.63	7.289		< 0.001
Male	376 (37.0)	236 (33.1)	82 (45.6)	54 (47.0)	4 (44.4)		15.075	0.002
BMI	22.44 ± 3.66	22.08 ± 3.18	23.47 ± 4.40	23.03 ± 4.43	23.88 ± 7.08	8.093		0.003
Epigastric pain	579 (57.0)	391 (54.9)	102 (56.7)	79 (68.7)	7 (77.8)		9.609	0.022
Epigastric burning	353 (34.7)	243 (34.1)	61 (33.9)	46 (40.0)	3 (33.3)		1.557	0.669
Bloating	672 (66.1)	471 (66.2)	120 (66.7)	73 (63.5)	8 (88.9)		2.883	0.410
Belching	445 (43.8)	316 (44.4)	78 (43.3)	47 (40.9)	4 (44.4)		0.519	0.915
Early satiety	221 (21.8)	158 (22.2)	36 (20.0)	26 (22.6)	1 (11.1)		1.157	0.763
Nausea	230 (22.6)	165 (23.2)	38 (21.1)	24 (20.9)	3 (33.3)		1.105	0.776
H. pylori positive	253 (25.1)	152 (21.5)	33 (18.6)	66 (57.9)	2 (22.2)		64.204	< 0.001

BMI: Body mass index; H. pylori: Helicobacter pylori.