Table 1.

General information of the chronic gastric patients.

Group	Tongue coating White/yellow W/Y	Gender		Age ($\overline{x}$ ± SD)
		Male	Female
Hp positive	$\begin{array}{ccc}\mathrm{2}& \mathrm{13}& \mathrm{8}\end{array}$	12	11	51.71 ± 13.42
Hp negative	$\begin{array}{ccc}\mathrm{9}& \mathrm{1}& \mathrm{9}\end{array}$	7	12	58.57 ± 10.69