Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 4 , Pages 1234-1241 , April 2009

Hyperglycemia Increases Risk of Gastric Cancer Posed by Helicobacter pylori Infection: A Population-Based Cohort Study

  • Fumie Ikeda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Fumie Ikeda, MD, and Yutaka Kiyohara, MD, Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka City 812-8582, Japan. fax: (81) 92-652-3075
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  • Yasufumi Doi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Koji Yonemoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Toshiharu Ninomiya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Michiaki Kubo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Kentaro Shikata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Jun Hata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Yumihiro Tanizaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Takayuki Matsumoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Mitsuo Iida

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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  • Yutaka Kiyohara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Fumie Ikeda, MD, and Yutaka Kiyohara, MD, Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka City 812-8582, Japan. fax: (81) 92-652-3075

Received 9 January 2008 ,Accepted 18 December 2009.

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 Conflict of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research A (No. 18209024) and C (No. 20591063) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and a Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (Comprehensive Research on Aging and Health: H20-Chouju-004).

PII: S0016-5085(08)02303-2

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.12.045

Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 4 , Pages 1234-1241 , April 2009

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