Groups No. of patients did endoscopy EGD with detected lesions Normal EGD +VE FOBT 7 6 1 IDA 4 2 2 Both FOBT and IDA 3 3 0 Total 14 11 3

Table 4: Represents results of EGD examination of the studied occult bleeding CHD patients in the 3 groups, EGD was performed in 7/9 patients from the 1st group (6/7) had endoscopic detected lesions and (1/7) patient was normal EGD result. In the 2nd group 4 out of 11 patients only were investigated by EGD, lesions were detected in (2/4). Regarding the 3rd group the all the 3 patients underwent EGD examination revealed presence of lesions.