Some people with ITP are also infected with Helicobacter pylori, the same bacteria that cause most peptic ulcers.

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They won for their work in identifying the cause of peptic ulcers.

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Up to four per cent of patients taking NSAIDs develop serious gastrointestinal complications, including peptic ulceration and bleeding from the stomach and small intestine.

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Peptic ulcers, also related to poor diet, along with stress, were reported most in Carlisle, where 17.5% of middle-aged men said they had suffered from them.

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