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**__Abstract__****__Background:__** Our first study had shown that Chinese tea has anti‐__Helicobacter__ activity. The present study investigated the relationship between patients’__Helicobacter__ status and the history of Chinese tea consumption. **__Methods:__** Chinese patients who had their first upper endoscopy were recruited. Before the procedure, patients completed questionnaires about their current Chinese tea consumption habits and those when they were around 10–25 years old. This information was used to calculate the tea consumption indices (TCI). Gastric biopsies (two from the antrum and two from the corpus) were taken for histological examination for __Helicobacter__. **__Results:__** Eighty patients were recruited. Eight patients were rejected because of either an incomplete questionnaire, absence of gastric biopsy or a suspected history of treatment for __Helicobacter__ infection. Of the 72 patients, 42 (58.3%) were __Helicobacter__ positive. The age, sex ratio and indications for endoscopy were similar in both __Helicobacter__‐positive and ‐negative groups. Classifying patients using either current, past or total TCI, patients with high tea consumption had significan

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Author

YUK-KEI YEE; MARCEL WING-LEUNG Koo; MING-LEUNG SZETO

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0815-9319)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)