Non-invasive diagnosis of gastric mucosal atrophy in an asymptomatic population with high prevalence of gastric cancer

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World Journal of Gastroenterology

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World J Gastroenterol. Nov 28, 2006; 12(44): 7172-7178
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Table 1 Correlation between the serum levels of pepsinogen and gastrin with the type and topography of histological gastritis (median)

	Chronic non-atrophicgastritis (n = 10)	Antrum-predominant atrophicgastritis (n = 10)	Corpus-predominantatrophic gastritis¹ (n = 9)
PG-1 (µg/L)^a	115.6	103.3	40.9
PG-1/PG-2^a	4.39	5.62	2.22
17-gastrin^b (pmol/L)	6.2	3.7	36.8

¹Including 1 patient with multifocal atrophic gastritis;

^aP < 0.05 or

^bP < 0.01 between the three groups (Kruskal-Wallis Test).

Citation: Rollan A, Ferreccio C, Gederlini A, Serrano C, Torres J, Harris P. Non-invasive diagnosis of gastric mucosal atrophy in an asymptomatic population with high prevalence of gastric cancer. World J Gastroenterol 2006; 12(44): 7172-7178
URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v12/i44/7172.htm
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v12.i44.7172