2016
DOI: 10.1111/apt.13708
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Letter: risk factor and mortality of peptic ulcer disease

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“…The most common causes of PUD are Helicobacter pylori infection, as well as the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, which additionally aggravate the disease leading to complications, such as gastrointestinal haemorrhage or perforation. Since the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids is becoming more widespread, peptic ulcer complications have emerged as a substantial healthcare problem [ 1 , 2 ]. In addition, infection by H. pylori causes chronic inflammation, which has been suggested to develop to gastric cancer—the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) [ 3 , 4 ].…”
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“…The most common causes of PUD are Helicobacter pylori infection, as well as the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, which additionally aggravate the disease leading to complications, such as gastrointestinal haemorrhage or perforation. Since the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids is becoming more widespread, peptic ulcer complications have emerged as a substantial healthcare problem [ 1 , 2 ]. In addition, infection by H. pylori causes chronic inflammation, which has been suggested to develop to gastric cancer—the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) [ 3 , 4 ].…”
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“…Describing the serious complications of PUD leading to death in more detail, as suggested in the letter from Zhang et al, 1 and analysing clinical decisions made in individual patients' care would have given us even more detailed data on the characteristics of PUD patients. Unfortunately, in our national death register-based study, individual patient data was not accessible.…”
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“…1 In addition, no synthesis of data was performed. All the data (r, r 2 , or P) of the results was based on one of the included studies.…”
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