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. 2019 Dec;98(52):e18460.
doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000018460.

Helicobacter pylori and gastrointestinal and neurological diseases: Study protocol of an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Baoning Wang  1 , Jing Zhang  1 , Sihan Chen  2 , Mingjiang Bie  1   3   4
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Helicobacter pylori and gastrointestinal and neurological diseases: Study protocol of an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Baoning Wang et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Dec.

Abstract

Background: Systematic reviews showed that Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is a major risk for developing gastric cancer and gastric ulcer and that it might be the cause of inflammatory bowel diseases, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and neurological diseases like Alzheimer disease. However, the robustness of the evidence was not tested. We will perform an umbrella review to systematically evaluate current evidence on the correlation between HP infection and gastrointestinal and neurological diseases.

Methods: We will search OVID MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane library for systematic reviews that evaluate the correlation of HP with gastrointestinal and neurological diseases, from inception to 1 July, 2019. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts of retrieved articles for eligible studies, and they will extract information for data analysis. We will assess heterogeneity between studies using I statistics and evaluate small-study effect in each systematic review through Egger test. Excess significance bias will be evaluated by compared the expected number of clinical studies with positive findings with the observed number. Quality of each systematic review will be assessed by using AMSTAR2 checklist.

Ethics and dissemination: This umbrella review is anticipated to be finished in December 2019, and the results will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and disseminated through conference presentation or poster. Because all of the data used in this systematic review and meta-analysis has been published, this review does not require ethical approval.Registration: PROSPERO CRD42019137226.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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