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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Jpn J Helicobacter Res. 2015;16(2):42–50.

Table 1.

Risk factors suggested to be indicative of an increased risk of metachronous gastric cancer.

  • Active H. pylori infection

  • Increased age

  • Severity of atrophic gastritis

  • Aberrant DNA methylation

  • Microsatellite instability

  • Aberrant expression of miRNAs

  • CD44vO expression by the tumor cells

  • Microscopic foci of intramucosal neoplasia elsewhere in the stomach