Correlation between antigastric autoantibodies and severity of H pylori gastritis and gastric atrophy
| Antiluminal autoantibodies | Anticanalicular autoantibodies | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | Negative | Positive | ||||
| Severity of body gastritis | |||||||
| −/+ | 33 | 8 | 34 | 7 | |||
| ++/+++ | 23 | 15* | 18 | 20*** | |||
| Atrophy | |||||||
| No | 49 | 17 | 48 | 18 | |||
| Yes | 7 | 6 (NS) | 4 | 9** | |||
−/+, no or mild chronic body gastritis; ++/+++, moderate or severe chronic body gastritis.
NS, not significant; * p ⩽ 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.