“…The duration of dialysis in the enrolled population ranged from at least 6 months to 8.4±0.3 years (mean±standard deviation). Most studies presented a crude rate of H. pylori infection in patients with CKD versus a control group, and two studies37,40 presented adjusted ORs, which were adjusted for age, sex, peptic ulcer history, steroid or medication use, diabetes, hypertension, chronic heart failure, coronary artery disease, and liver cirrhosis in Chang and Hu37 and for sex, age, hypertension, diabetes, body mass index, uric acid, smoking, drinking, total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in Kong et al 40. The clinical characteristics of the included studies are shown in Table 2 (study by Kong et al .…”