Diagnostic Methods of Helicobacter pylori Infection for Epidemiological Studies: Critical Importance of Indirect Test Validation

Table 3

Comparison of the OLGA system in Myanmar and Bhutan.

Country [ref.]	ASR for GC	Stage 0	Stage I	Stage II	Stage III	Stage IV
Dominican Republic [13]	8.3	22.1%	64.5%	13.2%	0.0%	0.0%
Myanmar [15]	15.3	43.2%	52.4%	4.0%	0.4%	0.0%
Bhutan [17]	23.0	7.8%	59.0%	27.5%	4.9%	0.8%
Indonesia [16]	3.9	65.3%	33.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%

ASR: age-standardized incidence rate/100,000 (available from the International Agency for Research on Cancer; GLOBOCAN2012, http://globocan.iarc.fr/); GC: gastric cancer; OLGA: operative link for gastritis assessment.