title: A clinico-epidemiological study on gastritis in gastric carcinoma and in non-cancerous gastric pathology in Poland.
abstract: To investigate the risk of gastric cancer development in subjects with atrophic and nonatrophic gastritis, we studied 221 consecutive gastric cancer patients and 7647 non-cancer subjects for whom endoscopic biopsy of the gastric mucosa was available. In gastritis patients, the relative risk (RR) estimates of gastric cancer were as follows: corpus atrophic gastritis RR = 8.7 (95% CI = 5.4-14.1), antral atrophic gastritis RR = 4.5 (2.4-8.1), chronic atrophic pangastritis RR = 7.6 (3.8-15.3), corpus nonatrophic gastritis RR = 1.6 (0.9-2.7), antral non-atrophic gastritis RR = 1.2 (0.7-2.3), and pangastritis RR = 1.3 (0.6-2.8). The latter was of borderline significance (p = 0.07). In peptic ulcer, a significant excess risk was calculated for subjects with either corpus atrophic gastritis (RR = 3.1 [2.5-3.9] or antral atrophic gastritis (RR = 3.5 [2.6-4.8]). For stomach polyps, the risk was significantly increased only in subjects with corpus atrophic gastritis (RR = 2.1 [1.3-3.5]). The risks for both peptic ulcer and polyps, however, were significantly increased in chronic atrophic pangastritis. A substantial excess risk of gastric cancer was found for atrophy in the corpus (RR = 20.9 [9.0-48.9]) and in the antrum (RR = 14.9 [5.3-41.9]). An increased risk of peptic ulcer was also confirmed in subjects with atrophy in the corpus (RR = 3.0 [1.3-6.9]) and in the antrum (RR = 4.9 [2.0-12.1]).
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Epidemiol. Prevent. Med., Jagiellonian Univ., Collegium Medicum, Cracow, Poland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jedrychowski
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Popiela
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Boeing
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Warnest
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matyja
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gryglewski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulig
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tobiasz-Adamczyk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kieltyka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Szafraniec
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005756:Gastritis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005757:Gastritis, Atrophic / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007417:Intestinal Polyps / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology