Endoscopic severe mucosal atrophy indicates the presence of gastric cancer after Helicobacter pylori eradication -analysis based on the Kyoto classification

Table 2 Characteristics of Patients

	Gastric cancer (+)	Gastric cancer (−)	P value
Number	43	119	–
Sex (F/M)	5/38	47/72	0.0006^a
Age (years old, median, range)	72 (58–87)	69 (58–86)	0.0305^b
Duration after HP eradication (months, mean ± SEM)	66.88 ± 7.170	73.79 ± 5.221	n.s.^b
Brinkman Index (mean ± SEM)^c	405.4 ± 89.33	264.2 ± 34.88	n.s.^b

^aFisher’s exact test, ^bMann-Whitney U test
^cThe smoking history was not provided by one subject in the gastric cancer (+) group and two subjects in the gastric cancer (−) group

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