Bacterial flora concurrent with Helicobacter pylori in the stomach of patients with upper gastrointestinal diseases

Table 2 Demographic, non-Helicobacter pylori bacterial colonization and clinical characteristics of 103 patients

Diseases	Enrolled patients (n)	Age (yr)1	Gender (male:female)	Colonized patients
Duodenal ulcer	42	39 (20-56)	2:1	28 (66.7%)
Gastric ulcer	21	42 (20-62)	0.75:1	9 (42.9%)
Gastritis	23	39 (10-75)	0.44:1	13 (56.5%)
Non-ulcer dyspepsia	13	34 (22-57)	0.63:1	13 (100%)a
Reflux esophagitis	4	52 (41-63)	1:1	4 (100%)
Total	103	39 (10-75)	0.96:1	67 (65.0%)
P value		0.0792	0.0743	0.00284

¹Data are expressed as median (range);

²By analysis of variance;

³By χ² test;

⁴By Fisher exact test;

^aP = 0.00006 vs gastric ulcer group by Bonferroni method.