[Chronic gastritis and serum lipids, hypertension and cholelithiasis]

In 217 patients after gastric biopsies from corpus and antrum we looked for statistic correlations with lipids in serum, blood pressure, and gallstones. In patients with hypercholesterolemia we more often observed atrophic gastritis in antrum whereas in patients with hypertriglyceridemia or hypertension we more frequent found atrophic gastritis in corpus (significance on 5 per cent level). These results allow us to discuss the possibility, that arterial diseases may play a role in pathogenesis of atrophic gastritis. - In agreement with literature in cholelithiasis we found more often atrophic gastritis, but the difference was not statistically significant.