Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Xingtai City

Table 1

Details of the gastroscopy procedures performed, categorized by the cause of UGIB.

Details	Pre-COVID-19 period (4-Jan to 31-Jan) ( of )	COVID period-19 (1-Feb to 28-Feb) ( of )	value
All UGIB events ( (%))	149 (3.68%)	66 (6.13%)	0.016
Peptic ulcer UGIB ( (%))	82 (2.03%)	34 (3.16%)	0.027
Variceal UGIB ( (%))	34 (0.84%)	16 (1.49%)	0.056

values were compared between the two groups. A significant level of was used. Abbreviations: COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019; UGIB: upper gastrointestinal bleeding; EGD: esophagogastroduodenoscopy.