Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Active Helicobacter pylori Infection

Inverse relationship between alcohol consumption and active helicobacter pylori infection

Relationship between alcohol consumption and active Helicobacter pylori infection.

BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a cause of chronic gastritis and maybe responsible for functional dyspepsia in a subset of patients. Many risk factors, such as alcohol consumption and smoking, may contribute to the colonization and infection of H. pylori in humans. However, studies on the relationship between H. pylori infection and drinking or smoking have produced conflicting re...

Relationship between β-Thalassemia minor and Helicobacter pylori infection

Background: Until now, no study has been reported investigating the association between β-thalassemia minor and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. This study was designed to compare H. pylori infection rate between β-thalassemia minor patients and healthy controls. Methods: A number of 100 β-thalassemia minor patients (50 males, 50 females) and 100 gender-matched healthy...

The relationship between helicobacter pylori infection and myocardial infarction

Background: Coronary Artery Disease is known as the main cause of death in industrialized countries. Relation between this disease and some infections such as Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) has been shown in several studies. The purpose of this study was to dermine the relationship between Hypylori and mycardical infarctions. Methods: Seventy-three myocardial infarction patients and 78 individu...

The Relationship between Chronic Urticaria and Helicobacter pylori Infection

Chronic urticaria is a prolonged disease with unknown etiology and management.in order to determine the association of helicobacter pylori(H.pylori) infection with chronic urticaria,a case-control study was carried out in this regard 95 chronic urticaria patients without any underlying etiology and 190 healthy individuals who were matched for age and sex were evaluated by-anti-H.pylori IgG dete...