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Establishment and Evaluation of a Risk Prediction Model for Pathological Escalation of Gastric Low-Grade Intraepithelial Neoplasia
Published on: February 16, 2024
High-risk population for gastric cancer development based on serum pepsinogen status and lifestyle factors
Yutaka Yamaji1, Hirotsugu Watabe, Haruhiko Yoshida
1Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. yamaji-tky@umin.ac.jp
Background:
Gastric atrophy is a major risk factor for non-cardiac gastric cancer. Serum pepsinogen status could identify people at high-risk for gastric cancer development during our previous cohort study. However, lifestyle-related factors may additionally affect this risk.
Materials And Methods:
A total of 6983 Japanese were followed up by annual endoscopy in the previous study, and 43 cases of gastric cancer including two cardiac cancers developed. In most subjects, the body length and weight were measured and a questionnaire was applied to gather information regarding life habits. The risk of non-cardiac gastric cancer development during surveillance was re-analyzed based on serum pepsinogen, sex, age, body mass index (BMI), alcohol, and smoking habit.
Results:
A total of 6158 subjects with 37 non-cardiac gastric cancer development (male/female = 4259/1899, mean age = 49.0, mean follow-up period = 4.79 years) were entered into analysis. In a multivariate analysis, old age (by 10 years; (odds ratio) OR, 2.8; p < .001), alcohol (weekly; OR, 2.4; p = .03), smoking (current; OR, 5.6; p = .006 and past; OR, 3.9; p = .04), and pepsinogen status ("atrophic"; OR, 6.2; p < .001) were independent risk factors, whereas BMI was not. The annual incidence of gastric cancer was 1.2% in the older subjects aged > or = 60 years with "atrophic" pepsinogen status. Moreover, it was as high as 2.9% when they had both alcohol and current smoking habits.
Conclusions:
Old age, alcohol, and smoking habits additionally promoted the risk for gastric cancer in subjects with gastric atrophy.
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