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Meta-analysis of the relationship between Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and gastric cancer

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Meta-analysis of cohort or case-control studies with age- and/or sex-matched controls with raw data on H. pylori infection found the source of heterogeneity between studies was caused by differences in the selection of controls, patient age, and the site and stage of gastric cancer.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1998-06-01. It has received 904 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Helicobacter pylori & Cancer.

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Helicobacter pylori infection and the development of gastric cancer

TL;DR: Gastric cancer develops in persons infected with H. pylori but not in uninfected persons, and those with histologic findings of severe gastric atrophy, corpus-predominant gastritis, or intestinal metaplasia are at increased risk.
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The global health burden of infection-associated cancers in the year 2002.

TL;DR: The fraction of the different types of cancer, and of all cancers worldwide and in different regions, has been estimated using several methods; primarily by reviewing the evidence for the strength of the association (relative risk) and the prevalence of infection in different world areas.
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Helicobacter pylori eradication to prevent gastric cancer in a high-risk region of China: a randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: It was found that the incidence of gastric cancer development at the population level was similar between participants receiving H pylori eradication treatment and those receiving placebo during a period of 7.5 years in a high-risk region of China.
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Meta-Analysis in Clinical Trials*

TL;DR: This paper examines eight published reviews each reporting results from several related trials in order to evaluate the efficacy of a certain treatment for a specified medical condition and suggests a simple noniterative procedure for characterizing the distribution of treatment effects in a series of studies.
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Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Data From Retrospective Studies of Disease

TL;DR: In this paper, the role and limitations of retrospective investigations of factors possibly associated with the occurrence of a disease are discussed and their relationship to forward-type studies emphasized, and examples of situations in which misleading associations could arise through the use of inappropriate control groups are presented.
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Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk of gastric carcinoma.

TL;DR: Infection with H. pylori is associated with an increased risk of gastric adenocarcinoma and may be a cofactor in the pathogenesis of this malignant condition.
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Unidentified curved bacilli on gastric epithelium in active chronic gastritis

TL;DR: Gastric biopsy findings are classified according to the type of inflammation, regardless of other features, as "no inflammation", "chronic gastritis", or "active chronic gastritis" (ACG).
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