The Prevalence of Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia and Distribution of Helicobacter pylori Infection, Atrophy, Dysplasia, and Cancer in Its Subtypes

Table 3

Relationship between Helicobacter pylori status and types of intestinal metaplasia.

Helicobacter Pylori	Complete IM; ( = 46); (%)	Incomplete IM; ( = 506); (%)	Fisher’s exact test; value
Negative	25 (54.3%)	314 (62.1%)	0.314
Positive	21 (45.7%)	192 (37.9%)

IM: intestinal metaplasia; statistically significant.