SynthesisDigestive diseases and sciences2014
Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection worldwide: a systematic review of studies with national coverage.
Synthesis in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 145 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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145 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- "True" Helicobacter pylori infection and non-cardia gastric cancer: A pooled analysis within the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project.Helicobacter · 2022Pooled it
- Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2022Pooled it
- Prevalence ofFrontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic review with meta-analysis: association between Helicobacter pylori CagA seropositivity and odds of inflammatory bowel disease.Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2019Pooled it
- Blood groups A and AB are associated with increased gastric cancer risk: evidence from a large genetic study and systematic review.BMC cancer · 2019Pooled it
- Non-invasive diagnostic tests for Helicobacter pylori infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- ACG Clinical Guideline: Treatment of Helicobacter pylori Infection.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2017Guideline
- The Correlation of MGMT Promoter Methylation and Clinicopathological Features in Gastric Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
- Identifying the best regimen for primary eradication of Helicobacter pylori: analysis of 240 cases.MicrobiologyOpen · 2020Trial
- Effects of periodontal therapy on eradication and recurrence of Helicobacter pylori infection after successful treatment.The Journal of international medical research · 2019Trial
- Prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori in Obese Adults: A Literature Review.Physiological research · 2025Review
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- Recent Trend of Laboratory Tests in Common Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Best Treatment Options for Severe Helicobacter pylori Infections.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and risk factors ofFrontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- The Aging Stomach: Clinical Implications ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Genetic Determinants of Clarithromycin and Fluoroquinolones Resistance inAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Assessment ofHeliyon · 2024Article
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Abstract
The systematic assessment of large population-based surveys addressing the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection may provide robust evidence for understanding the trends in the exposure to this major risk factor across settings with distinct patterns of gastric cancer variation. Our aim was to describe the prevalence of H. pylori infection in different countries and periods, through systematic review of the literature. We searched PubMed from inception up to September 2013 to identify original studies reporting on the prevalence of H. pylori, and only those evaluating samples with national coverage were included. We identified 37 eligible studies including data for 22 countries. The prevalences were higher in Central/South America and Asia, and at least two-fold higher in countries with high gastric cancer incidence. In most countries presenting data for different time periods, the prevalences were usually lower in the most recent surveys. However, there was little variation in settings where prevalences were already low. Among countries with high prevalence of H. pylori infection there is an ample scope for reducing its burden in the next decades, whereas further declines in settings with already low prevalences will require more intensive efforts.
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