Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer death globally. Although endoscopy-based screening has led to a decrease in gastric cancer mortality in Eastern Asian countries with populations at high risk, 1 lack of risk stratification and the cost of health care infrastructure and trained personnel limit its use in most of the world. Availability of noninvasive biomarkers for the identification of high-risk individuals could optimize endoscopy-based screening programs for a more general application, including in regions where gastric cancer rates in the general population are low.Chronic Helicobacter pylori infection is responsible for at least 80% of gastric cancers globally, 2 including approximately 90% of noncardia (ie, distal) tumors and at least 50% of cardia tumors. 3,4 H pylori infection is also etiologically linked to peptic ulcer and extragastric conditions, including iron deficiency anemia. According to the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, the estimated number of new cases of gastric cancer that will be diagnosed in the US population in 2024 is 26 890. There are racial and ethnic disparities in gastric cancer in the US; incidence rates are 2-to 3-fold higher in self-identified African American, Asian, and Hispanic/Latino populations compared with non-Hispanic White populations. Unfortunately, most US patients with gastric cancer are diagnosed at advanced stages, when curative resection is not possible. The 5-year relative survival in the US SEER dataset for the 2014-2020 period is only 36.4%, much lower than in Japan or the Republic of Korea.Results from several randomized trials show that H pylori eradication reduces both gastric cancer incidence and mortality by about 40%. 5 Similar benefits of H pylori eradication are observed in first-degree relatives of patients with gastric cancer 6 and after resection of early gastric cancer to prevent metachronous gastric cancer. 7 Additionally, H pylori test-and-treat strategies in adults could be cost-effective as a primary screen in some settings. 8 The International Maastricht VI/Florence consensus designated as a priority the implementation of policies for diagnosis and treatment of H pylori in populations with intermediate rates (ie, 10-20 per 100 000 population, agestandardized) to high rates (ie, >20 per 100 000 population) of gastric cancer, using antibiotic regimens achieving at least 90% eradication rates. 8 These primary prevention efforts should be conducted in the context of demonstration projects to be later scaled and integrated into national health care systems.Although no recent population-based data of H pylori infection are available in the US, studies in convenience sample sets suggest that like gastric cancer, long-standing racial and ethnic