Multifaceted Assessment of Chronic Gastritis: A Study of Correlations between Serological, Endoscopic, and Histological Diagnostics

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of patients.

Age (years)	56.5 (12–94)
Sex: male/female	200/119
Hp seropositive (%)	69.0 (220/319)
Endoscopic findings
Normal	11
Atrophic gastritis	258
Gastric ulcer	53
Duodenal ulcer	39
Erosive gastritis	17
Gastric cancer	39
Serum pepsinogens
Pepsinogen I	71.99 (38.65–80.90)*
Pepsinogen II	22.37 (11.48–26.63)*
Pepsinogen I/II ratio	3.55 (2.20–4.70)*
Kimura-Takemoto classification
Absence of any atrophy	60
Closed-type gastritis	146
Open-type gastritis	113

*Variables are presented as median (interquartile range) for skewes variables.