Table 1.

Mean ornithine decarboxylase levels in normal gastric mucosa before and after treatment (CO₂ nmol·mg protein^-1·h^-1)

	n	Pre-treatment	Post-treatment	Pre-treatment minus post-treatment (¯x ± s)
Traditional and Western medicine	32	246.9	191.7	55.1 ± 6.49
Western medicine only	31	239.9	225.1	14.8 ± 2.01