1997년에 시작한 ‘상부위장관 증상이 없는 한국인에서 Helicobacter pylori 감염의 혈청학적 유병률에 관한 다기관역학조사’ 회고

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Nayoung Kim looks back on a landmark Korean study of stomach bacteria, in a memoir-style paper published in two thousand twenty-four. Helicobacter pylori infection drives stomach disease, and policy needs prevalence data. In nineteen ninety-seven the Korean study group designed a nationwide survey of people without symptoms.

Blood samples came from 5,736 participants across Korea during nineteen ninety-eight. Their ages ran from one month to seventy-nine years. Antibody testing found infection in about seventeen percent of children and sixty-seven percent of adults. Questionnaires probed risk factors alongside. The retrospective describes how the multicenter effort was organized. Such baseline data anchored decades of Korean prevention policy for pylori-related disease.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11967391