Helicobacter Pylori Infection among Patients Attending the Gastroenterology Department in Tertiary Care Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Table 4

Habitual risk factors.

Participant characteristics	Total cases n = 100	Positive cases n = 14 (%)	Chi-square	p value
Tea drinking habit			3.908	0.048
Yes	72	7 (9.7)
No	28	7 (25)
Smoking habit			0.565	0.452
Yes	22	2 (9.1)
No	78	12 (15.4)
Alcohol drinking habit			0.056	0.813
Yes	26	4 (15.4)
No	74	10 (13.5)
Type of food consumption			0.036	0.850
Vegetarian	16	2 (12.5)
Nonvegetarian	84	12 (14.3)
Frequency of meal consumption per day			4.729	0.030
Two times	32	8 (25)
More than two times	68	6 (8.82)