Hospitalization for variceal hemorrhage in an era with more prevalent cirrhosis

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study population based on etiology of cirrhosis n (%)

	Overall	ETOH	Non-ETOH	P value
No. ICU admissions	243	151	92
Mean age	54.33	52.92	58.25	0.002
Male sex	165 (67.9)	119	46	0.003
White ethnicity	235 (96.7)	147	88	0.04
Nonselective beta-blocker	82 (33.7)	45	37	0.51
Index bleed	128 (52.6)	78	50	0.07
Deaths	43 (17.6)	22	21	0.88

ETOH denotes alcoholic cirrhosis; Non-ETOH denotes non-alcoholic cirrhosis. ICU: Intensive care unit.