Chronic Gastritis in Dermatitis Herpetiformis: A Controlled Study
Table 1
Gastric findings in the 93 patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (female 40, median age 48 years; range 7–76) and 186 control patients with dyspepsia (female 80, median age 56 years; range 18–86).
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Control patients
Odds ratio
-value
Corpus atrophy
15 (16.0%)
5 (2.7%)
6.96 (CI 2.29–25.16)
<0.001
Antrum atrophy
3 (3.2%)
2 (1.1%)
3.07 (CI 0.34–37.16)
0.34
Intestinal metaplasia1
13 (14.0%)2
12 (6.5%)3
2.36 (CI 1.05–5.30)
0.038
Helicobacter pylori1
17 (18.3%)
17 (9.1%)
2.22 (CI 1.09–4.54)
0.028
1in corpus or antrum. 2antrum 8, corpus 8. 3antrum 8, corpus 5.