Changes of prevalence of H. pylori after 10 years in Slovakia

The prevalence of the H. pylori infection markedly declines not only in developed countries, but also in countries of Mid and Eastern part of Europe. We compared a group of 266 out-patients with functional dyspepsia (from the year 1992) with the group of 513 patients (examined in the year 2002) and also with 963 patients examined for functional dyspepsia in the year 2004. The prevalence for the year 1992 was 52%, in the year 2002 the prevalence of H. pylori declined to 40,7% and in the year 2004 despite the rise of the total number of patients with functional dyspepsia, the prevalence of H. pylori declined in ou…