Outpatient endoscopic survey of smoking and peptic ulcer.
Open Access
- 1 June 1986
- Vol. 27 (6) , 648-651
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.27.6.648
Abstract
A survey of the smoking habits of 1217 outpatients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was carried out over an 18 month period. Six hundred and twenty four were current smokers, 248 ex-smokers and 345 non-smokers. 11.9% of smokers had gastric ulcers, 7.7% of ex-smokers (p less than 0.025) and 4.6% of non-smokers (p less than 0.001). 2.8% of smokers had duodenal ulcers, 6.8% of ex-smokers (p less than 0.01) and 6.1% of non-smokers (p less than 0.001). There was a dose response effect between the number of cigarettes smoked and duodenal and gastric ulceration. Gastric cancer was also more frequent in smokers than non-smokers (p less than 0.01), but macroscopic oesophagitis less frequent (p less than 0.001). The results confirm the association between smoking and peptic ulcer.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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