FIGURE 2.

Number of patients with invasive gastric cancer classified as mild, moderate, or severe according to the Kimura and Takemoto classification of endoscopic mucosal atrophy. In Group S, the pathological stage significantly correlated with the endoscopic grade of mucosal atrophy (p = 0.001, Chi‐squared test). However, these correlations were not observed in Group L. Group L: Patients with invasive gastric cancers diagnosed ≥10 years after Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication; Group S: Patients with invasive gastric cancers diagnosed <10 years after H. pylori eradication.