Table 4.

Univariate analysis to determine the association between age, gender, exercise, smoking, alcohol intake, gastroesophageal reflux disease and previous proton pump inhibitors exposure with the detection of Helicobacter pylori

	OR	95%CI	P value
Age	1.019	1.002-1.036	0.028
Gender	1.256	0.76-2.07	0.373
Exercise	0.664	0.389-1.136	0.135
Smoking	0.789	0.476-1.308	0.358
Alcohol intake	0.505	0.27-0.944	0.032
GERD	0.165	0.077-0.355	< 0.01
Previous PPI exposure	0.281	0.166-0.476	< 0.01

GERD: Gastroesophageal reflux disease; PPI: Proton pump inhibitor.