Clinical Study
The Histological and Immunohistochemical Aspects of Bile
Reflux in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux
Disease
Table 1
Demographic and clinical data in GERD patients and healthy controls.
| | GERD patients () | Healthy controls () |
| | Gender, n (M/F) | 42/11 | 9/6 | | Age, mean (95% CI) | 33.3 (29.2–37.3) | 40.4 (31.2–49.5) | | BMI | | | | Mean (95% CI) | 24.7 (23.6–25.3)* | 26.85 (25.3–28.3) | | Elevated (>25), n (%) | 22 (41.5) | 11 (73.3) | | Smoking, n (%) | 22 (41.5) | 7 (46.6) |
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Statistically significant differences are marked with asterisk (*).
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