Gastric polyps: Association with Helicobacter pylori status and the pathology of the surrounding mucosa, a cross sectional study

Table 2 Distribution of patient and clinical characteristics according to different polyp types n (%)

Cofactor	Adenoman = 5	Fundicn = 82	Hyperplasticn = 87	Mixedn = 13	Othern = 109	P value
Age (yr), mean ± SD	75.4 (3.3)	54.7 (13.0)	58.4 (10.8)	62.2 (14.0)	57.7 (11.9)	0.0013
Gender						0.2086
Female	5 (100.0)	67 (81.71)	64 (73.56)	9 (69.23)	75 (68.81)
Male	0 (0.00)	15 (18.29)	23 (26.44)	4 (30.77)	34 (31.19)
Ethnicity						0.7427
Hispanic	5 (100.0)	66 (80.49)	77 (88.51)	11 (84.62)	93 (85.32)
Non-Hispanic White	0 (0.00)	5 (6.10)	4 (4.60)	0 (0.00)	8 (7.34)
Other	0 (0.00)	11 (13.41)	6 (6.90)	2 (15.38)	8 (7.34)
Pathology of surrounding gastric						< 0.00011
Chronic gastritis	0 (0.00)	51 (62.20)	52 (59.77)	9 (69.23)	78 (41.05)
Intestinal metaplasia	3 (60.00)	1 (1.22)	6 (6.90)	1 (7.69)	14 (56.00)
Other	0 (0.00)	22 (26.83)	15 (17.24)	2 (15.38)	5 (16.67)
Not biopsied	2 (40.00)	8 (9.76)	14 (16.09)	1 (7.69)	12 (23.53)
Helicobacter pylori status						0.00061
Negative	4 (80.00)	70 (85.37)	52 (59.77)	11 (84.62)	74 (35.07)
Positive	0 (0.00)	8 (9.76)	27 (31.03)	2 (15.38)	34 (47.89)
Not tested	1 (20.00)	4 (4.88)	8 (9.20)	0 (0.00)	1 (7.14)
Portal hypertensive gastropathy						0.1821
No	5 (100.0)	80 (97.56)	77 (88.51)	12 (92.31)	102 (93.58)
Yes	0 (0.00)	2 (2.44)	10 (11.49)	1 (7.69)	7 (6.42)

¹P value was obtained using χ² test.