Epidemiologic study on chronic atrophic gastritis with obesity and following metabolic syndrome

由于慢性萎缩性胃炎(CAG)是胃癌的危险因素之一，根除幽门螺杆菌(Hp)得到了广泛的应用。另一方面，CAG引起的胃功能障碍可能导致吸收不足，从而预防肥胖和代谢综合征(METS)的发生。本研究通过对有CAG和无CAG的受试者的肥胖指数和METS诊断因素的比较，以评估CAG在公共卫生方面的作用。肥胖指数在CAG状态上没有差异，CAG与METS相关因素之间没有明显的相关性。因此，CAG与肥胖和METs无关，建议根除Hp。

Since chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) is one of the risk factors of gastric cancer, eradication of Helicobacter pylori (HP) is widely performed. On the other hand, malfunction of stomach from CAG could cause of inadequate absorption and sequentially could prevent obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS). In this study, subjects with/without CAG were compared in obesity index and factors included in MetS diagnosis in order to evaluate the CAG in public health aspect.Obesity index were not different in their CAG status, and no obvious results of strong association were observed between CAG and MetS related factors. Thus, CAG are not associated to obesity and following MetS, and eradication of HP could be recommended.