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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
It has been suggested that carriage of Helicobacter pylori may protect against infections by exogenous intestinal pathogens. An analysis was done of all children who were screened for school fitness during 1996-1998 in Ulm, Germany, to compare rates of diarrheal illnesses in H. pylori-positive and H. pylori-negative children. Of 2477 5-8-year-old children studied, 304 (12.3%) were H. pylori-positive by carbon 13-labeled urea breath test. For H. pylori-positive children, diarrhea within the prior 3 months was less often reported than for H. pylori-negative children (54.3% vs. 76.1%; P<.001, adjusted for nationality). Compared with H. pylori-negative children, the odds ratio (OR) for the occurrence of diarrhea within the prior 3 months was 0.37 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.28-0.49) for H. pylori-positive children; after adjustment for covariates, the OR was 0.56 (95% CI, 0.42-0.76). These data support the hypothesis that H. pylori colonization may protect against diarrheagenic gastrointestinal infections.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-1899
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
182
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1446-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Inverse relationship between gastric colonization of Helicobacter pylori and diarrheal illnesses in children: results of a population-based cross-sectional study.
pubmed:affiliation
Dept. of Epidemiology, German Centre for Research on Ageing, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany. rothenbacher@dzfa.uni-heidelberg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article