High salt intake plays a role in the occurrence of gastric ulcers

The researchers say too much salt in the diet is affective in the incidence of gastric ulcers. According to American researchers, high concentrations of salts in the human's gastrointestinal tract facilitate the stimulation of two activator genes of Helicobacter pylori. US researchers presented their findings at the annual meeting of Society for Microbiology and said that high salt intake is also associated with gastric cancer in addition to gastric ulcers. Helicobacter pylori are in gastric bacteria and are cases of duodenal ulcer disease in 90% of cases and 80% of gastric ulcers. This bacterium plays a role also in the incidence of gastric cancer in some cases. Many people infected with Helicobacter pylori in their gastrointestinal tract, but not all carriers of this bacterium are suffer the stomach ulcers. Hannan Gans, the director of the researchers in the University of Health Sciences in Maryland, America's military forces, says: While previously, scientists were found that high salt consumption is associated with peptic ulcer, but the relationship between salt with Helicobacter pylori activity was not investigated. According to her, the results of laboratory research on the impact of high concentrations of salt in culture media on Helicobacter pylori indicates, in these circumstances, the growth rate of this bacterium decreased but the ability of pathogenic is increasing. Accordingly, the deformation of H. pylori in the presence of salt and comes in a chain. The doctor Gans said High salt levels in food enhance the survival conditions of H. pylori and increase their pathogenicity.