Table 2.

The comparison of histological scores according to the status of serum CagA antibody

	Serum CagA antibody positive	Serum CagA antibody negative	p
n	66	22
Antrum
Inflammation	2.38 ± 0.51	2.41 ± 0.59	0.73
Activity	1.29 ± 0.73	1.55 ± 0.91	0.22
Atrophy	1.41 ± 0.65	1.36 ± 0.79	0.86
Intestinal metaplasia	0.26 ± 0.68	0.55 ± 0.96	0.09
Bacterial density	1.20 ± 0.76	1.20 ± 0.76	0.75
Corpus
Inflammation	2.30 ± 0.60	2.14 ± 0.56	0.23
Activity	1.48 ± 0.70	1.36 ± 0.65	0.51
Atrophy	0.65 ± 0.85	0.55 ± 0.85	0.48
Intestinal metaplasia	0.09 ± 0.33	0.18 ± 0.50	0.38
Bacterial density	1.65 ± 0.64	1.64 ± 0.79	0.89