Herbal Medicine Hewei Jiangni Decoction Is Noninferior to Oral Omeprazole for the Treatment of Nonerosive Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind, and Double-Dummy Controlled Trail

Table 1

Patient demographics and baseline clinical characteristics.

Characteristics	Treatment group (n = 56)	Control group (n = 53)	-value	Testing method
Age (mean, SD)	48.05 ± 10.91	48.51 ± 10.31	0.823	Student ‘s t-test
Gender (%)			0.204	Chi-square test
Male	12 (21.43)	16 (30.19)
Female	44 (78.57)	37 (69.81)
Eating habits (%)			0.398	Chi-square test
Like to eat spicy greasy food	16 (28.57)	13 (24.53)
A balanced diet	40 (71.43)	40 (75.47)
Have the habit of drinking tea (%)			0.463	Chi-square test
Tea drinking habit	12 (21.43)	10 (18.87)
No habit of drinking tea	44 (78.57)	43 (81.13)
Have a history of smoking and alcohol abuse (%)			0.465	Chi-square test
Smoking and alcohol abuse	4 (7.14)	5 (9.43)
No history of smoking or alcohol abuse	52 (92.86)	48 (90.57)
Have a history of other diseases (%)			0.569	Chi-square test
History of other illnesses	7 (12.50)	7 (13.21)
No history of other diseases	49 (87.50)	46 (86.79)
Serum ALT (U/L) (Mean, SD)	18.89 ± 10.08	17.62 ± 9.43	0.505	Student ‘s t-test
Serum AST (U/L) (Mean, SD)	19.90 ± 5.08	19.08 ± 5.49	0.427	Student ‘s t-test
RBC (10^9/L) (Mean, SD)	4.69 ± 0.45	4.69 ± 0.46	0.984	Student ‘s t-test
WBC (10^12/L) (Mean, SD)	5.93 ± 1.34	5.96 ± 1.30	0.904	Student ‘s t-test
PLT (10^9/L) (Mean, SD)	247.30 ± 54.45	261.41 ± 59.09	0.202	Student ‘s t-test
BUN (mmol/L) (Mean, SD)	4.78 ± 1.12	4.57 ± 1.29	0.362	Student ‘s t-test
Scr (umol/L) (Mean, SD)	69.14 ± 11.60	68.27 ± 11.02	0.694	Student ‘s t-test
Weight (kg) (Mean, SD)	63.18 ± 10.20	63.79 ± 9.73	0.749	Student ‘s t-test
BMI (kg/m^2) (Mean, SD)	23.52 ± 3.19	23.83 ± 3.39	0.630	Student ‘s t-test