Table 2.

Univariate analysis assessing the factors related to methylation‐high

Variables	Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)	P value
Age	1.04 (0.99–1.08)	0.12
Gender (male)	1.69 (0.76–3.80)	0.2
Location (lesser curvature)	13.05 (4.16–40.92)	<0.0001
Duration	0.99 (0.98–1.00)	0.016
Cancer occurrence	1.97 (0.96–4.06)	0.066
Atrophic type or IM positive	64.92 (10.00–25.35)	<0.0001

IM, intestinal metaplasia.

Methylation‐high, mean Z‐score methylation > −0.006.