Delayed Diagnosis and Evolving Trends in Gastric Cancer During and After COVID-19: A Comparative Study of Staging, <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> Infection and Bleeding Risk in Western Romania.

Results Regarding patient demographics, the mean age of patients increased slightly across the three cohorts, from 66.2 years (±9.7) in the pre-pandemic group ( n = 45) to 68.5 years (±10.3) during the pandemic ( n = 40) and 70.4 years (±11.2) in the post-pandemic period ( n = 36), although this incremental rise did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.149), as presented in Figure 1 .

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pylori was strongly linked to NCGC, though CGC showed an increasing trend in H. pylori prevalence.

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