Upper Gastrointestinal Mucosal Injury and Symptoms in Elderly Low-Dose Aspirin Users

Table 1

Characteristics of subjects with mucosal injury in individual organs.

	Esophageal mucosal injury		Gastric mucosal injury		Duodenal mucosal injury		Mucosal injury in 2 or more organs
	LDA users; ( = 28)	Nonusers; ( = 276)	LDA users; ( = 101)	Nonusers; ( = 792)	LDA users; ( = 9)	Nonusers; ( = 99)	LDA users; ( = 23)	Nonusers; ( = 150)
Age (year)	72.2 ± 5.4	71.3 ± 5.3	72.1 ± 5.2	71.3 ± 5.0	71.9 ± 5.2	71.2 ± 5.2	71.4 ± 5.1	71.4 ± 5.2
Gender (M/F); (%)	18/10; (64.3/35.7)	180/96; (65.2/34.8)	79/22; (78.2/21.8)^***	438/354; (55.3/44.7)^***	6/3; (66.7/33.3)	76/23; (76.8/23.2)	17/6; (73.9/26.1)	98/52; (65.3/34.7)
BMI (kg/m^2)	23.1 ± 3.2	23.5 ± 4.0	23.6 ± 3.1^**	22.6 ± 3.5^**	24.3 ± 2.4	23.0 ± 3.0	23.3 ± 3.1	24.5 ± 3.3

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Among subjects with gastric mucosal injury, a higher proportion of men to women was evident among LDA users compared with nonusers. Data represent mean ± SD. BMI = body mass index.