Table 5

Important dietary factors in patients with and without intestinal metaplasia (IM) in different parts of the stomach

	Antrum			Corpus			Cardia
	With IM	No IM	p Value	With IM	No IM	p Value	With IM	No IM	p Value
Meat consumption			<0.05			0.16			0.07
<1/week	48	181		17	124		13	172
1–4/week	55	543		19	270		13	471
5–7/week	25	131		6	69		5	142
Fresh fruit			0.27			0.50			0.22
<1/week	52	290		17	157		14	267
1–4/week	55	424		18	228		13	384
5–7/week	21	143		7	78		4	134
Raw vegetables			<0.01			0.17			0.13
<1/week	81	460		27	251		21	428
1–4/week	38	284		12	154		8	259
5–7/week	9	111		3	58		2	98