Clinical characteristics of patients in the two study groups according to the presence of specialised columnar epithelium (SCE)
| GOR symptoms | Endoscopic oesophagitis | Histological oesophagitis | Hiatus hernia | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex (M/F) | Age (y)1-150 | Duration of GOR symptoms1-150 | Yes | No | None | Grade 1–2 | Grade 3–4 | Overall frequency | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||
| Group A (n=31) | ||||||||||||||||
| SCE+ (n=19) | 14/5 | 58.9 (13.1) | 17.5 (5.0) | 14 (74) | 5 (26) | 5 (26) | 10 (53) | 4 (21) | 14 (74) | 13 (68) | 6 (32) | 10 (53) | 7 (37) | |||
| SCE− (n=12) | 6/6 | 10 (83) | 2 (17) | 7 (58) | 5 (42) | 0 | 5 (42) | 8 (67) | 4 (33) | 10 (83) | 2 (17) | |||||
| Group B (n=44) | ||||||||||||||||
| SCE+ (n=11) | 3/8 | 60.2 (14.2) | 10.9 (8.9) | 2 (18) | 9 (82) | 10 (91) | 1 (8) | 0 | 1 (8) | 2 (18) | 9 (82) | 2 (18) | 9 (82) | |||
| SCE− (n=33) | 16/17 | 12 (36) | 21 (64) | 24 (73) | 5 (15) | 4 (12) | 9 (27) | 8 (24) | 25 (76) | 14 (42) | 19 (58) | |||||
↵1-150 Expressed as mean (SD). All other data are expressed as number (%).
GOR, gastro-oesophageal reflux.