Endoscopy-based Kyoto classification score of gastritis related to pathological topography of neutrophil activity

Table 3 Multivariate analysis for the topographic distribution of neutrophil activity

	Inactive stomach	Antrum-predominant gastritis	Pangastritis	Corpus-predominant gastritis	P value
No.	73	82	147	25
Female sex, %	50.7	42.7	52.4	48.0	0.646
Age, mean (± SD), yr	53.6 (14.1)	46.8 (10.4)	48.7 (11.3)	60.4 (10.9)	< 0.001
Body mass index, mean (± SD), kg/m2	22.8 (3.1)	22.9 (3.6)	22.0 (2.8)	21.8 (3.2)	0.254
Drinking, %	27.4	23.2	25.2	36.0	0.758
Smoking, %	9.6	8.5	5.4	20.0	0.083
Family history of gastric cancer, %	13.7	18.3	15.0	32.0	0.162
Positive Helicobacter pylori antibody, %	45.2	92.7	95.2	88.0	< 0.001
Kyoto score, mean (± SD)	3.05 (2.36)	4.57 (1.52)	5.21 (1.35)	5.96 (1.17)	< 0.001

P value was calculated using the multinomial logistic regression analysis.