Factors associated with gastro-duodenal ulcer in compensated type 2 diabetic patients: a Romanian single-center study.

Introduction: infection is accepted as the leading cause of chronic gastritis, ulcer disease and gastric cancer, with an important impact on health care burden, especially in countries with a high prevalence of infection. The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of infection, medication, associated medical conditions or social habits on endoscopic ulcer occurrence in the compensated type 2 diabetic population.

Material And Methods: Two hundred and sixty type 2 diabetic patients investigated on endoscopy (57 patients with peptic ulcer and 203 controls) with a complete set of biopsies, demographic and medical data were enrolled.

Correlation of Metabolic Risk Factors with Sessile Serrated Lesions.

Background And Aims: The importance of sessile serrated lesions (SSLs) in the pathogenesis of colorectal carcinoma has been recently established. These are supposed to cause the so-called "interval cancer", having a rapidly progressive growth and being difficult to detect and to obtain an endoscopic complete resection. We aimed to establish the most important metabolic risk factors for sessile serrated lesions.

Statins and gastroduodenal endoscopic lesions: A case-control study.

Experimental studies showed a dose-dependent gastroprotective effect of statins on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced endoscopic lesions, modulated by increasing endogenous nitric oxide and prostaglandin production.We investigated the influence of chronic treatment with statins on the occurrence of endoscopic lesions in patients referred for endoscopic evaluation, adjusted for the most important etiologic and risk factors for peptic ulcer disease and its complications.A consecutive series of 564 patients who underwent upper digestive endoscopy, stratified according to the severity of endoscopic lesions were recruited.

Factors Associated with Recurrent Ulcers in Patients with Gastric Surgery after More Than 15 Years: A Cross-Sectional Single-Center Study.

Aim: We aimed to establish the independent predictive factors (from infection, biliary reflux, histologic features of the gastric mucosa, drugs, comorbidities, and social habits) for gastric stump ulcer occurrence more than 15 years after surgery.

Methods: 76 patients with previous gastric surgery were included: 21 patients with gastric ulcer (marginal ulcer or ulcer of the rest of the gastric remnant-study group) and 55 controls (nonulcer group).

Results: infection tended to be higher in the control group than in the ulcer group (14.

Clinical Risk Factors for Gastroduodenal Ulcer in Romanian Low-Dose Aspirin Consumers.

Background. Aspirin use for cardiovascular or cancer prevention is limited due to its gastrointestinal side effects. Objective.