Systematic review of the prevalence of gastric intestinal metaplasia and its area-level association with smoking Revisión sistemática de la prevalencia de metaplasia intestinal gástrica y sus asociación con el consumo de tabaco

• Main Authors: Bárbara Peleteiro (Author), Joana Bastos (Author), Henrique Barros (Author), Nuno Lunet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: We aimed to show an area-level association between the frequency of intestinal metaplasia (IM) in Helicobacter pylori-infected patients and tobacco consumption. Methods: We systematically reviewed the literature to retrieve data on the prevalence of IM in different countries and performe...