Serum Pepsinogen I and Serum Gastrin in the Screening of Severe Atrophic Corpus Gastritis M. KEKKI, I.M. SAMLOFF, K. VARIS & T. IHAMAKI Second Dept. of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, CA, USA, and Malmintori Medical Center, Helsinki, Finland

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Kekki M, Samloff IM, Varis K, Ihamaki T. Serum pepsinogen I and serum gastrin in thc screening of severe atrophic corpus gastritis. Scand J Gastroentcrol 1991, 26(suppl 186). 109-1 16 The possibilities to screen atrophic corpus gastritis with serum pepsinogen 1 (S-PGI) and serum gastrin (S-gastrin) concentrations have been studied in 774 subjects: 71 index subjects selected from a general population at random, 353 of their first-degree relatives, 276 first-degree relatives of patients with gastric cancer, 53 patients with pernicious anaemia, and 21 of their relatives. Discrimination function analysis was calculated from members of random and gastric carcinoma families. S-PGI

Serum pepsinogen I and serum gastrin in the screening of severe atrophic corpus gastritis.

The possibilities to screen atrophic corpus gastritis with serum pepsinogen I (S-PGI) and serum gastrin (S-gastrin) concentrations have been studied i...
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