prevalence of helicobacter pylori infection in patients with down syndrome and mental retardation

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fariba fayaz infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel: +98-2122439963-8, fax: +98-2122439964

latif gachkar infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

sara rahmati roodsari infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

bita pourkaveh infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

چکیده

conclusions the current study indicated that h. pylori infection occurs at a higher rate in patients with down syndrome and mental retardation. this may provide more reasons to control the transmission of h. pylori among them. results the differences between the groups were compared by t-test and x2 test. seropositivity for h. pylori was significantly higher in patients with down syndrome and mental retardation than in those of the control group (p < 0.001) as the socioeconomic features did not differ between the two groups, this can be a strong consideration of the validity of this comparison (the current study showed that out of 75 specimens, 41 cases were positive by elisa test; accordingly, ubt test results were positive too). objectives the current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of h. pylori infection among institutionalized patients with down syndrome and mental retardation. patients and methods seventy five institutionalized patients with down syndrome and mental retardation, with the age range of < 10 to 50 years were selected from welfare center, an institute for caring mental retardation and down syndrome patients. seventy five out patients were also included as controls too. the control population was from the same geographical area as the study group, and had comparable socioeconomic features. sanitary condition and personal hygiene of both the intervention and control groups were considered. serum immunoglobulin g (igg) produced in response to h. pylori infection was measured, with the helori-test igg with 92% sensitivity and 95% specificity; urea breath test (ubt) was also done for all. background clinical and epidemiological data indicate that helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) are acquired during childhood and remains for the life time of the host. patients with physical and mental disabilities may be particularly exposed to this microorganism, because of different dietary, abilities, living, and sanitary condition.

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