Effects of Vonoprazan Compared with Esomeprazole on the Healing of Artificial Postendoscopic Submucosal Dissection Ulcers: A Prospective, Multicenter, Two-Arm, Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 2

Characteristics of all parameters analyzed.

Characteristic	Total ()	V group ()	E group ()	value
Age (years) median (IQR)	70.2 (66.76)	70 (65.3–75)	70 (66–75.3)	0.957
Sex (male), n (%)	55 (87.3)	23 (85.2)	22 (84.6)	0.728
Helicobacter pylori infection (positive), n (%)	15 (28.3)	7 (26.0)	8 (30.8)	0.766
Diabetes, n (%)	8 (12.7)	3 (11.1)	5 (19.2)	0.467
Location (upper, middle, lower)	28, 20, 7	12, 10, 5	14, 10, 2	0.596
Location (greater curvature, lesser curvature, anterior wall, posterior wall)	13, 7, 11, 10	7, 13, 3, 4	6, 6, 8, 6	0.157
Tumor size (mm), range, n (>20 mm)	14.1 (4–38), 12	14.9 (4–38), 7	13.2 (4–35), 5	0.745
Specimen size (mm), range, n (>30 mm)	40.2 (26–80), 40	40.6 (30–54), 22	39.8 (26–80), 18	0.352
Procedure duration (min), range, n (>60 min)	43.3 (8–103), 14	45.5 (9–103), 8	41.1 (8–100), 6	0.757

IQR: interquartile range (a measure of variability, based on dividing a dataset into quartiles). A value < 0.05 was considered to reflect significance. Significant by Fisher’s exact test. Significant by the Mann–Whitney U test.