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- Title
Helicobacter pylori and Gastritis in Peruvian Patients: Relationship to Socioeconomic Level, Age, and Sex.
- Authors
Ramirez-Ramos, A.; Leon-Barua, R.; Gilman, R. H.; Recavarren, S. Arve; Spria, W.; Watanabe-Yamamoto, J.; Garrido-Klinge, G.; Berendson-Seminario, R.; Rodriguez-Ulloa, C.; Cok-Garcia, J.; Bonilla-Palacios, J.; Guevara-Jimenez, C.; Ruiz-huidobro, E.
- Abstract
Studies in 1,120 Peruvian adults suffering from upper gastrointestinal symptoms and stratified according to socioeconomic level., age., and sex have shown the following; Rates of <em>Helicobacter pylori</em> infection range from 3% in patients with normal gastric mucosa to 92% in cases of chronic active gastritis. Age-specific infection rates do not vary with the severity of active gastritis and are similar in men from low and high socioeconomic levels. Women from higher socioeconomic backgrounds show a significantly lower age-specific rate of infection than women from lower levels or from men from either level. In addition, a seroepidemiologic survey of children, predominantly from families from lower socioeconomic levels, demonstrates that infection begins for many of them in the first years of life.
- Subjects
HELICOBACTER pylori; GASTRITIS; PERUVIANS; GASTROINTESTINAL diseases; GASTROINTESTINAL mucosa
- Publication
American Journal of Gastroenterology (Springer Nature), 1990, Vol 85, Issue 7, p819
- ISSN
0002-9270
- Publication type
Article