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Intestinal Metaplasia Associated with Symptoms of Dyspepsia
Omar Viramontes1, Dalia Martinez2, Ma Somsouk2
1University of California, Davis.
Background:
Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and Helicobacter pylori (HP) are associated with dyspepsia, but the role of gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) has not been described. The objective of this study is to examine the association between gastric IM and dyspepsia.
Methods:
We developed a cohort of consecutive patients referred to gastroenterology between Jan 2019 and July 2020 for dyspepsia and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and completed an upper endoscopy with biopsies in a safety-net health system. The primary outcome was the prevalence of gastric IM in patients with dyspepsia compared to IDA. Secondary outcomes included prevalence of HP, chronic gastritis (CG) and chronic active gastritis (CAG) in the dyspepsia and IDA groups. A multivariable analysis was performed to assess the independent association between gastric IM and dyspepsia.
Results:
Compared to the IDA cohort (n = 366), patients with dyspepsia (n = 349) were more likely to be female (65% vs. 47%, p < 0.01), harbor gastric IM (20.3% vs. 14.2%, p = 0.03), and less likely to have CAG (12.0% vs. 26.5%, p < 0.01) or HP (10.9% vs. 21.3%, p < 0.01). After adjusting for pathological findings, race, ethnicity, gender and age, the association strengthened between IM and dyspepsia (adj OR 1.81 from OR 1.54, 95% CI 1.19-2.76, p < 0.01).
Conclusions:
We observed a significant relationship between the presence of gastric IM and dyspepsia symptoms, which increased after adjusting for confounding factors. Future studies should verify the relationship between IM and dyspepsia, the effect of IM regression, and possible mediators of gastric IM on symptoms.
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