Figure 5.
Measurement of gastric fluid pepsin concentration. Pepsin concentration was measured in gastric fluid of patients on and off PPI therapy. Gastric fluid from patients on therapy had significantly higher concentrations of pepsin than patients off therapy (p = 0.03). Both on and off PPI therapy groups represent the mean +/− SEM of pepsin measured in the gastric fluid derived from 12 patients/group (n = 12). Pepsin concentrations were log transformed and differences were considered significant between the two patient groups at p ≤ 0.05 and noted by the symbol (*). The p values were determined using an unpaired two-tailed student’s T test with equal variance. Supplementary Fig. S2 depicts pepsin concentration within the gastric fluid of each individual patient sample, with numerical values of pepsin concentration listed in Supplementary Table S1.