Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection among 4742 randomly selected subjects from Northern Ireland

Abstract

This study demonstrated a high prevalence of infection in a population from a developed country. Previously reported associations between H. pylori infection, age, sex, social class, and reduced height in females were confirmed and smoking was identified as a possible risk factor for H. pylori infection.

Randomised clinical trial: Helicobacter pylori eradication is associated with a significantly increased body mass index in a placebo-controlled study

“…1 This study found no difference in BMI by H. pylori status, which concurs with some recent population-based studies, 5,8,18,19 although several other studies showed an association, 2-4 which may reflect the various geographical origins of the populations or the degree of adjustment for confounding. * Social class; I and II = professional, III = skilled occupation, IV and V = partly or unskilled occupations.…”

Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori Infection among Symptomatic Patients, Correlation with Endoscopic Findings and it’s Association with Type II Diabetes Mellitus

“…In our study we found no difference in H. pylori prevalence between the sexes. Regarding the influence of the lifestyle on the prevalence of H. pylori infection our data supports the hypothesis that there is no significant association between H. pylori and alcohol use or smoking which was shown in multiple studies [20][21][22][23]. Markers of low socioeconomic status such as a low family income [24] and low educational level [25][26][27][28], had all a higher likelihood of carrying H. pylori infection.…”

“…However in our study, 31.6% of GU patients and 62.5% of DU patients were H. pylori positive. This decrease in the prevalence of PUD related to H. pylori was reported in several studies in Australia and the United States of America [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Several factors may have influenced the decreased rate of PUD associated with H. pylori such as the use NSAIDs.…”

Complete Blood Cell Parameters between Anti-HP IgG Antibody Positive and Negative Subjects

“…There were controversy reports in this issue. Some reports suggesting that the prevalence in males was higher than in females [10,11]. And yet another reports stating that gender related differences did not exist [8,12].…”