21.   Their results indicated that ulcers were more proximal when atrophic gastritis was more severe.

22.   Atrophic gastritis is thought to be the precursor lesion of the intestinal type of gastric carcinoma which is the most common cancer in Japan.

23.   Hypergastrinaemia in patients with type A atrophic gastritis and the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is also accompanied by an increased incidence of gastric carcinoid tumours.

24.   Similarly, the increased incidence of carcinoid tumours found in patients wth type A atrophic gastritis and patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome has been associated with hypergastrinaemia.