Ulcerative Colitis in Saudi Children

Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Omani Children

“…Histologic gastritis was significantly more present in patients with H. pylori infection. This was also reported by other histology-based prevalence studies [41][42][43]. Low-iron status can be in association with H. pylori infection [29,30,52], even in the absence of erosions or ulceration [31] or GI symptoms [53].…”

“…The current cohort histology-based H. pylori infection prevalence of 25% in children is much lower than what is reported from other regional and Arab countries. Our prevalence of 7% in the age group of <5 years (Table 2) is lower than what was reported by El-Mouzan et al [41], where H. pylori gastritis was found in 47% in children of <5 years of age. The prevalence difference in the younger than 5 years age groups between our study and others' could be due to several factors (SES, housing, etc.…”

“…In this study, children between age of 5-10 years and older than 10 years had prevalence of 33 and 29%, respectively ( Table 2). Which is less than what is reported in Saudi Arabia (62 and 69% for children between 6 and 15 years of age and between 16 and 18 years of age, respectively) [41]. In Bahrain, much higher prevalence of 57% in 100 children aged 3-17 years was reported [42], and 43% in 60 children aged 9 months to 13 years in Kuwait [43].…”

“…Rowland et al [40] reported this in a prospective study where children became infected with H. pylori at a very young age, and the risk of infection declined rapidly after 5 years of age. Several other studies documented variation in H. pylori prevalence with the age of children [41,44,45,47].…”

Seroprevalence Rates of Helicobacter pylori and Viral Hepatitis A among Adolescents in Three Regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Is There Any Correlation?

“…Most of the studies carried out in KSA have dealt with the prevalence rate of H. pylori among dyspeptic patients or patients undergoing endoscopic procedures. In these studies, the prevalence rates were reported to range between 40 and 80% [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Several studies have tried to find an association between H. pylori infection and hepatitis A viral (HAV) infection [8,10,[17][18][19].…”