Age, blood tests and comorbidities and AIMS65 risk scores outperform Glasgow-Blatchford and pre-endoscopic Rockall score in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Figure 1  Flow diagram of patient selection.

Figure 2 Receiver operating characteristics curve of age older than 65, pre-endoscopic Rockall score, age, blood tests and comorbidities, and Glasgow-Blatchford score predictors of in-hospital mortality. A: Variceal bleed; B: Non-variceal bleed; C: Mixed variceal and non-variceal bleeding population; D: Variceal bleeding group; E: Non-variceal bleeding group.

Figure 3 Receiver operating characteristics curve. Lactate as a predictor for variceal bleed compared to non-variceal bleeding group.