Luis Bujanda

Specialist in Digestive System at Donostia University Hospital, coordinator of the Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Area at the Biogipuzkoa Institute and professor of Medicine at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU)
Donostia University Hospital
Biogipuzkoa Institute

This is not a high-quality article, as it is a summary of summaries.

[With regard to the evidence that was already known] There have been articles in favour and others against.

Overall, the conclusions are unreliable and run contrary to compelling data:

  • The prevalence of H. pylori infection in Spain has fallen, as has the incidence of gastric cancer. However, the incidence of colorectal cancer has risen.
  • The prevalence of H. pylori infection is the same in men as in women. However, colorectal cancer is more common in men (60 per cent of cases).
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