Safety of upper endoscopy in patients with active cocaine use

Table 1 Patient characteristics

		Active cocaine users, n = 23	Remote cocaine users, n = 25	P value3
Age, yr, n2	(Avg. ± SD)	51.0 ± 9.5	54.8 ± 10.9	0.2104
Sex, n1	Male	19	11	0.0065
	Female	4	14
Ethnicity, n1	White	1	2	0.8896
	African American	17	19
	Hispanic	5	4
EKG, n1	Normal	8	9	0.7575
	Abnormal	14	13
	No EKG	1	3
Comorbidities, n1	Pulmonary	8	8	0.8385
	Cardiac	4	4	1.0006
	Renal	1	3	0.6106
	Liver	4	12	0.0255
	Hypertension	7	12	0.2145
	Other drug abuse	12	17	0.2635
	Neurologic	0	1	1.0006
	Obesity	1	2	1.0006
	Infectious	1	13	0.00035
	Malignancy	1	3	0.6106
	Diabetes	1	3	0.6106
	Other	3	3	1.0006

¹Categorical value. Presented as frequency.

²Continuous variables. Presented as mean value and standard deviation.

³Compared to alpha value < 0.05 for significance.

⁴t-test.

⁵chi-SQ.

⁶Fisher exact test.

EKG: Electrocardiogram