Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and atrophic gastritis in patients with dyspeptic symptoms in Myanmar

Table 2 Differences of histological scores according to the status of Helicobacter pylori infection

	H. pylori (+)	H. pylori (-)	P value
n	121	131
Age	42.5 ± 13.1	44.7 ± 15.2	0.22
Male	50	47	0.37
PG I	86.9 ± 72.0	75.8 ± 77.0	0.006
PG II	17.3 ± 11.6	9.8 ± 10.4	< 0.001
PG I/II	5.3 ± 2.0	8.1 ± 2.6	< 0.001
PG-positive	8	4	0.18
Antrum
Activity	1.22 ± 0.82	0.08 ± 0.26	< 0.0001
Inflammation	1.53 ± 0.65	0.50 ± 0.54	< 0.0001
Atrophy	0.78 ± 0.52	0.39 ± 0.50	< 0.0001
Intestinal metaplasia	0.19 ± 0.59	0.05 ± 0.31	0.02
Corpus
Activity	0.74 ± 0.65	0.08 ± 0.29	< 0.0001
Inflammation	0.99 ± 0.63	0.15 ± 0.42	< 0.0001
Atrophy	0.25 ± 0.50	0.05 ± 0.25	< 0.0001
Intestinal metaplasia	0.04 ± 0.32	0.04 ± 0.28	0.72
OLGA score	0.84 ± 0.56	0.40 ± 0.52	< 0.0001

OLGA: Operative link on gastritis assessment; H. pylori: Helicobacter pylori; PG: Pepsinogen.