A Link Between Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Helicobacter pylori Infection

Abstract

Background: Gastritis is a progressive disease that evolves from a non-atrophic to an atrophic state and progresses through intestinal metaplasia, even leading to gastric cancer. Gastritis is defined by an inflammatory process of the mucosal lining of the stomach.

Keywords

• helicobacter pylori
• gastritis
• platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio