Particularități epidemiologice ale infecției cu H.pylori in județul Brașov | [Epidemiological particularity of H. Pyori infection in Brașov 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: The purpose of this research is to compare the risk factors in three groups: the first group includes 51 healthy individuals not infected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and without any digestive disorder, the second batch of 52 persons are people with digestive disorders but not infected with H. pylori and the third group consists of 51 people with digestive disorders that were also diagnosed with the H. pylori infection. The determinant and favouring risk factors taken into account were: drinking water sources, means of transportation most frequently used and presence in the family (the same homestead) of a person infected with H. pylori.