近年来，由于对老年患者上消化道出血行内镜检查的普遍应用，易于作出病因诊断。随着年龄的老化，心、脑血管疾病及慢性呼吸系疾病、糖尿病等发病率也越来越高。为了解老年人的上消化道出血与所患疾病的关系，我们统计了我院１９９６年３月至１９９９年５月住院的６０岁以上的 In recent years, due to the prevalence of endoscopy in elderly patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding, easy to make etiological diagnosis. With age, heart, cerebrovascular disease and chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and other incidence is also getting higher and higher. In order to understand the relationship between the upper gastrointestinal bleeding and the diseases in the elderly, we counted the number of hospitalized patients over the age of 60 in our hospital from March 1996 to May 1999