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Show THt Wednesday. July 7, Bacterial infection, not stress, can cause stomach ulcers By RICHARD HARKNESS W Dr. Barry Marshall is credited with first Knight Ridder Newspapers ae ulcer coming back. I take .medications for the pain, owbut I read there was a ga way to get rid of it Can you tell me yy-keep- Q. My stomach com-kVpletel- y. A. Yes, there is an antibiot ic cure for most stomach ulcers. (I'll use the term stomach ulcers" to refer to both stomach and duodenal ulcers; the duodenum is ed at the lower end of the " stomach.) The cause of about 90 per-- . cent of stomach ulcers is a v bacterial infection called H. 3W pylori. Almost half of the adult population in the . '"United States is thought to harbor this organism. The ! lems. This column informed readers of the link between iTstomach ulcers and H. pylori infection in 1994. Oddly enough, a survey completed vt as recently as 1997 found C that many doctors were reluctant to prescribe the antibiotic ulcer cure even when patients were shown to have the infection. This finding was surprising, because the National Institutes of Health has recommended the antibiotic treatment since 1994. Instead, many doctors were prescribing traditional Band-aitherapies antacids and prescription medications to alleviate ulcer symptoms. Because these treatments aren't cures, ulcers can linger for years in suffering patients. The same survey found that 70 percent of the U.S. population did not know that ulcers are usually caused by a bacterial infection. For decades, the medical community and public accepted the idea that ulcers were caused by that old bugaboo stress. It was assumed that stress caused the stomach to secrete more acid, which caused the ulcer. Now it appears that stomach acid plays only a secondary, aggravating role. 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On the one els of the male hormone sug- """gest fewer problems with high y blood pressure and heart attacks and a generally more positive attitude about health, researcners ati n rciiiiojrivaina State University report in the of Behavioral Journal v' 1 1 Medicine. They analyzed testosterone levels of nearly 4,400 men who v""had served in the military, com- - paring those with average and those with levels to study the above-aver-"ag- lev-T,e- ls e differ-'"ence- s. But while the men with higher levels of the hormone iK'had some positive effects, there were also negatives. They tend-e- d to report more injuries than no. men with average testosterone .levels and also were more 3( inclined to smoke and drink. ...i "We don't yet fully understand how testosterone bene w" ' fits health or leads to behaviors detrimental to health," said Alan Booth, a Penn State sociologist. "More studies are needed to discover the missing pieces to this puzzle. 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