Characteristics of Costa Rican dyspeptic patients
| Atrophic gastritis | Corpus atrophic gastritis | Intestinal metaplasia | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Neg | P | Pos | Neg | P | Pos | Neg | P | |||||||
| Patients | 58 | 165 | 31 | 192 | 23 | 223 | |||||||||
| Sex (male/female) | 23/35 | 71/94 | 0.65 | 11/20 | 83/109 | 0.42 | 8/15 | 86/114 | 0.45 | ||||||
| Mean age ± SD (y) | 49 ± 12 | 59 ± 11 | <0.001 | 49 ± 12 | 62 ± 11 | <0.001 | 50 ± 13 | 60 ± 10 | <0.001 | ||||||
| HP positive (%) | 91.4 | 68.5 | 0.001 | 90.3 | 71.9 | 0.029 | 87.0 | 73.0 | 0.146 | ||||||
Abbreviations: Pos, positive; Neg, negative; HP, H. pylori.