Table 4. Histological scores according to the status of cagA.

	cagA (+)	cagA (–)	P
N	48	16
Antrum
Activity	1.48±0.61	1.25±0.44	0.20
Inflammation	1.94±0.56	1.75±0.57	0.24
Atrophy	1.15±0.50	0.81±0.54	0.03
Intestinal metaplasia	0.13±0.53	0.00±0.00	0.31
Bacterial density	1.79±0.68	1.63±0.80	0.48
Corpus
Activity	1.06±0.63	0.81±0.65	0.17
Inflammation	1.31±0.55	0.94±0.57	0.03
Atrophy	0.42±0.49	0.06±0.25	0.01
Intestinal metaplasia	0.06±0.43	0.00±0.00	0.56
Bacterial density	1.81±0.67	1.38±0.71	0.03
OLGA score	1.15±0.50	0.81±0.54	0.03