Randomised double blind controlled study of recurrence of gastric ulcer after treatment for eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection.

Objective: To determine whether eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection reduces recurrence of benign gastric ulceration.

Design: Randomised, double blind, controlled study. Patients were randomised in a 1:2 ratio to either omeprazole 40 mg once daily for eight weeks or the same treatment plus amoxycillin 750 mg twice daily for weeks 7 and 8.

Serum lipid changes following the completed stroke syndrome.

Levels of serum cholesterol and M-particle lipoprotein have been monitored in twenty-six patients after the onset of the completed stroke syndrome. Measurements were made regularly over the first 4 weeks and again at 3 months. A steady fall in serum cholesterol was noted which evened out after the ninth day and returned to the original level by the third month.