Abstract
These data provide limited, moderate quality evidence that searching for and eradicating H pylori reduces the incidence of gastric cancer in healthy asymptomatic infected Asian individuals, but these data cannot necessarily be extrapolated to other populations.
Keywords
MedicineHelicobacter pyloriMeta-analysisRelative riskInternal medicineAsymptomaticCancerRandomized controlled trialPlaceboConfidence intervalIncidence (geometry)GastroenterologyPathologyAlternative medicine
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- 2014
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- review
- Volume
- 348
- Issue
- may20 1
- Pages
- g3174-g3174
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- 584
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Alexander C. Ford,
Donald T. Forman,
R. H. Hunt
et al.
(2014).
Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy to prevent gastric cancer in healthy asymptomatic infected individuals: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
BMJ
, 348
(may20 1)
, g3174-g3174.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g3174
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- 10.1136/bmj.g3174