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Shigeyuki Ebara1, Daisuke Shirasaka, Nobuo Aoyama
1Division of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Background/Aims:
Helicobacter pylori infection has been implicated in atrophic gastritis and gastric ulcer disease. However, the relationship between gastric emptying and Helicobacter pylori infection is still unclear.
Methodology:
One hundred and two consecutive patients with functional dyspepsia were enrolled in this study (53 Helicobacter pylori positive and 49 negative). Gastric emptying was determined using both the 13C-octanoic acid breath test and the paracetamol absorption test. For grading gastric atrophy, the biopsy samples and serum pepsinogen I/II ratio were used. The relationship between gastric emptying, Helicobacter pylori infection and atrophy grade was investigated.
Results:
There was no significant difference in all gastric emptying parameters between Helicobacter pylori positive and negative patients. However, in Helicobacter pylori positive subjects, pepsinogen I/II ratio correlated with atrophy grade, and it also correlated with all parameters of gastric emptying. Especially in the half-emptying time, an important parameter, there was significant correlation with the pepsinogen I/II ratio (R = -0.39, p < 0.01). This finding implies that gastric emptying is delayed according to the degree of gastric atrophy.
Conclusions:
Gastric emptying was not delayed simply according to advanced age, but according to the advance in gastric atrophy.
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