Table 4.

Serum ghrelin levels according to gastric pathology independently of Helicobacter pylori status

Type of gastric pathology	Ghrelin levels (pg/mL)1				P value
	Normal	Chronic inactive gastritis	Chronic active gastritis	Atrophy/intestinal metaplasia
Antrum	365.5 (256.0-594.0)	334.5 (223.3-368.0)	306.8 (255.3-389.6)	294.0 (182.8-441.1)	0.08
Corpus	334.5 (242.0-549.0)	323.8 (238.5-371.0)	305.0 (234.0-395.5)	161.0 (150.0-289.0)	< 0.04a

¹median (IQR);

^aStatistically significant (Kruskal Wallis test).