“…Moreover, Hp -I has been repeatedly associated with MetS and IR, as well as its hepatic component nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, recently renamed as the metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease [ 14 , 15 , 16 ]. In this regard, the incidence of Hp -I in bariatric patients and characterization of the mentioned main histopathologic precancerous lesions being found incidentally in the gastric biopsies is an attractive correlation, which has been performed only in few studies [ 4 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ]. In this retrospective study, we aimed to investigate, for the first time in Switzerland, the presence of the mentioned main histological precancerous lesions in gastric mucosa biopsies obtained in terms of a planned bariatric surgery and correlate them with a variety of metabolic parameters through the prism of Hp -I.…”