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Table 5 Percent distribution of history of digestive diseases gastric neoplasms among participants

From: Dietary habits and Helicobacter pylori infection: a cross sectional study at a Lebanese hospital

 

Overall n = 294

H. pylori (−) n = 140

H. pylori (+) n = 154

p-value

Gastroenteritis

 No

260 (88.4)

129 (49.6)

131 (50.4)

0.116

 Yes

34 (11.6)

12 (35.3)

22 (64.7)

 

Peptic Ulcer

 No

228 (77.6)

126 (55.3)

102 (44.7)

< 0.001

 Yes

66 (22.4)

15 (22.7)

51 (77.3)

 

Esophagitis

 No

278 (94.6)

130 (46.8)

148 (53.2)

0.087

 Yes

16 (5.4)

11 (68.8)

5 (31.3)

 

Hepatitis C

 No

283 (96.3)

132 (46.6)

151 (53.4)

0.022

 Yes

11 (3.7)

9 (81.8)

2 (18.2)

 

Adenocarcinoma

 No

267 (90.8)

135 (50.6)

132 (49.4)

0.005

 Yes

27 (9.2)

6 (22.2)

21 (77.8)

 

Gastric MALT lymphoma

 No

281 (95.6)

136 (48.4)

145 (51.6)

0.483

 Yes

13 (4.4)

5 (38.5)

8 (61.5)

 

Stage of Gastric Cancer

 Early

20 (6.8)

7 (35.0)

13 (65.0)

0.456*

 Advanced

16 (5.4)

3 (18.8)

13 (81.3)

 

Lymph node metastasis

 No

24 (8.2)

8 (33.3)

16 (66.7)

0.711*

 Yes

13 (4.4)

3 (23.1)

10 (76.9)

 
  1. *p-value of Fischer Exact test
  2. Bolded data are significant