Table 2.

Incidence of carotid atherosclerosis and carotid intima-media thickness in subiects with and without H. pylori infection.

	Incidence of carotid atherosclerosis		p value	Carotid intima-media thickness (mm)		p value
	WithoutH. pylori infection	With H. pylori infection		Without H. pylori infection	With H. pylori infection
Male	2381 (45.67%)	1429 (48.54%)	0.006	0.700 ± 0.100	0.713 ± 0.098	0.001
≤50	945 (27.09%)	659(33.17%)	0.004	0.672 ± 0.087	0.689 ± 0.084	< 0.001
> 50	1436(83.25%)	770 (80.46%)	0.514	0.756 ± 0.106	0.763 ± 0.120	0.607
Female	1301 (42.13%)	668 (41.99%)	0.700	0.665 ± 0.106	0.662 ± 0.093	0.052

Data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation or n (%), where appropriate.