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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020 May 5;51(12):1222–1232. doi: 10.1111/apt.15770

Table 2.

Helicobacter pylori meta-analyses and risk of inflammatory bowel disease.

Study Study population Number of IBD diagnoses Risk Assessment (95% CI)
Luther, 201024 Pooled, 5903 1108 (UC) UC: RR 0.75 (0.62–0.90)
1654 (CD) CD: RR 0.60 (0.49–0.72)
Wu, 201523 Pooled, 3116 548 (UC) UC: RR 0.55 (0.48–0.64)
751 (CD) CD: RR 0.43 (0.37–0.50)
Rokkas, 201525 Pooled, 9163 1874 (UC) UC: RR 0.53 (0.42–0.67)
2526 (CD) CD: RR 0.38 (0.31–0.47)
Castaño-Rodríguez, 201713 Pooled, 80,789 2520 (UC) UC: OR 0.53 (0.44 to 0.65)
2938 (CD) CD: OR 0.38 (0.31 to 0.47)
386 (IBDU) IBDU: OR 0.43 (0.23 to 0.80)
Tepler, 201922 Pooled, 1748 272 (UC) CagA seropositive
688 (CD)  UC: OR 0.68 (0.35–1.32) 
 CD: OR 0.25 (0.17–0.38)
CagA seronegative
 UC: OR 0.97 (0.76–1.24)
 CD: OR 0.97 (0.82–1.14)
Piovani, 201926 Pooled, 83,798 6284 (UC) UC: OR 0.53 (0.44–0.65)
7869 (CD) CD: OR 0.38 (0.31–0.47)

IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; UC: ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease; IBD-U: Inflammatory bowel disease- Unclassified; OR: odds ratio; RR: relative risk; CI: confidence interval; CagA: cytotoxin-associated gene A