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Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Positive Non-cardia Gastric Adenocarcinoma Is Low and Decreasing in a US Population.

Theresa H NguyenNiharika MallepallyTariq HammadYan LiuAaron P ThriftHashem B El-SeragMimi C Tan
Published in: Digestive diseases and sciences (2019)
The prevalence of H. pylori infection among patients with non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma is relatively low (38.5-45.9%) and decreasing over time. This finding suggests there may be other important causal factors apart from H. pylori for gastric adenocarcinoma.
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