What is it about?
Analysis of the data of more than 62 million patients from the United States, who presented gastrointestinal and diagnostic symptoms such as inflammatory bowel diseases, liver diseases, and celiac diseases demonstrated that Native Americans and Hispanics had the highest prevalences of Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection. However, the black and Asian Pacific Islander populations had a more than seven times higher risk of HP infection when they presented with gastritis, dyspepsia, peptic-, gastric-, duodenal-ulcer, and neoplasm. The black population also had the highest risk of HP infection associated with GI cancer.
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Why is it important?
It is of paramount importance that physicians recognize and more deeply investigate how race and ethnicity predispose patients to Helicobacter pylori infection.
Perspectives
It was a great experience to have shared a year of scientific work with my colleagues from the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA. I hope that the corresponding authorities in the area of Epidemiology and Public Health will consider the results of this investigation so that they develop appropriate guidelines for different racial / ethnic groups, taking into consideration the high prevalence of this infection and its relationship with other gastrointestinal diagnoses in all family members.
Maria-Raquel Huerta-Franco
Universidad de Guanajuato
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This page is a summary of: Ethnic/racial differences in gastrointestinal symptoms and diagnosis associated with the risk of Helicobacter pylori infection in the US, Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, January 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ceg.s144967.
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