Prevalence of Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia in a Multiethnic US Veterans Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

There is a need to identify individuals with gastric intestinal metaplasia, a precursor to gastric cancer, so they can be offered screening and surveillance. We examined the prevalence of gastric intestinal metaplasia, detected by upper endoscopy biopsy analysis, in different race and ethnic subgroups. We also investigated the extent to which Helicobacter pylori infection, with or without acute and chronic gastritis, accounts for observed associations between race or ethnicity and risk of gastric intestinal metaplasia.

Methods

We used data from a cross-sectional study of consecutively recruited patients at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas, from February 2008 to August 2013. All participants completed a study questionn

SUBMITTER: Nguyen TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890574 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature