The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori among patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms
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Helicobacter pylori infection is one cause contributingto the upper gastrointestinal tract diseases including peptic ulcer and stomach cancer. Its prevalence always increases according to the age and relates to the socio-economic status particularly in the developing countries. This retrospective study was aimed to find the prevalence of H. pylori among patients who were investigated with the gastroduodenoscopy for the upper gastrointestinal symptoms in Ampur Dankhintod with positive rapid urease test during 1 June 2015 - 30 March 2016. The data were collected from Hosxp program.
There were 99 patients with mean age of 56 years. The gastroduodenoscopic findings consisted of 28 with gastric ulcer (28.3 %), 12 with duodenal ulcer (12.1 %) and 59 with gastritis and duodenitis (59.6 %). The overall prevalence of H. pylori was 42.4 % whereas the duodenal ulcer patients had higher prevalence than the gastric ulcer patients. (50 % vs. 42.9 %). And the prevalence was higher in the older groups especially highest in the group with more than 60 years of age, 62.1 %.
The prevalence of H. pylori was found higher in the older groups, especially more than 60 years of age group, in the gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer patients with more than 40 years of age.
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