Table 1. Clinical characteristics of the gastric patients in this study.

Disease	Number of patients (M/F)a	Age range in years	Mean age in years (M/F)a
Gastric cancer (GC)	20 (14/6)	44–89	64.3 (70.5/58.2)
Gastric ulcers (GU)	32 (26/6)	35–82	62.6 (66.9/58.3)
Duodenal ulcers (DU)	31 (15/16)	23–83	53.5 (54.8/52.3)
Chronic gastritis (CG)	16 (10/6)	15–91	54.1 (59.6/48.5)
Total	99 (65/34)	15–91	58.6 (63.0/54.3)

^aM/F, Male/Female.