Asymptomatic small intestinal ulcerative lesions: Obesity and Helicobacter pylori are likely to be risk factors

Table 3 Analysis of mucosal breaks and background factors

Valuable	Mucosal break + (n = 21)	Mucosal break – (n = 201)	P value1	P value2
Sex	Male/female: 19/2	Male/female: 129/72	0.015	0.13
Age	44.0 ± 6.7	45.2 ± 8.8	0.54
BMI	24.7 ± 3.6	22.5 ± 3.0	0.022	0.0074
Smoking	5 (23.8%)	56 (27.9%)	0.69
Drinking	14 (66.7%)	140 (70.0%)	0.78
Helicobacter pylori	8 (38.1%)	13 (6.4%)	0.054	0.035

¹Sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, and Helicobacter pylori were analyzed by the chi-square test, and age and body mass index were analyzed by the Mann-Whitney U test.

²P value by logistic multivariate analysis. BMI: Body mass index.