Epidemiological Features of H. Pylori in Brasov County

Abstract

Infection with H. pylori is involved in gastric and digestive intestinal human pathology, inducing over time (in decades) a chronic inflammation, lesions progressing from Atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and adenocarcinoma. Aim: Comparison of risk factors in three groups of people: the first includes healthy patients, uninfected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and without any digestive disorder, the second group consists of patients with digestive disorders but not infected with Helicobacter pylori, and the third group consists of patients with digestive diseases in which the bacterium Helicobacter pylori was detected.. The determinant and favored risk factors were: drinking water sources, means of transportation used most frequently, and the presence in the family (within the same home) of a person infected with H. pylori.