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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Helicobacter. 2017 May 29;22(4):10.1111/hel.12393. doi: 10.1111/hel.12393

Table 1.

Mean pepsinogen levels by presence or absence of histologically defined atrophy of the gastric corpus

Test-system Pepsinogen I (SD) [ng/ml] Pepsinogen II (SD) [ng/ml] Pg I/II Ratio (SD)
Overall
N=805		 Atrophy
N=50		 No atrophy
N=755		 Overall
N=805		 Atrophy
N=50		 No atrophy
N=755		 Overall
N=805		 Atrophy
N=50		 No atrophy
N=755
Biohit 73.9 (48.8) 60.5 (74.0) 74.7 (46.6) 10.7 (8.1) 10.3 (6.7) 10.7 (8.2) 8.3 (4.3) 5.7 (5.5) 8.4 (4.2)
Vector Best 87.9 (46.3) 59.4 (60.0) 89.8 (44.7) 17.8 (12.8) 17.8 (12.4) 17.8 (12.4) 6.3 (3.5) 3.9 (4.8) 6.5 (3.4)
Eiken 44.9 (30.3) 29.7 (31.9) 45.9 (29.9) 14.3 (10.7) 13.8 (8.4) 14.4 (10.9) 3.6 (1.8) 2.1 (1.9) 3.7 (1.7)

Pg I/II – ratio between pepsinogen I and pepsinogen II

Atrophy is defined as grade II-III atrophy in the corpus

SD – Standard Deviation