SUCROSE PERMEABILITY AS MARKER OF GASTRIC DAMAGE IS 96% EFFECTIVE
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
SUCROSE PERMEABILITY AS MARKER OF GASTRIC DAMAGE IS 96% EFFECTIVE "in predicting an abnormal endoscopy," according to a study by Lloyd Sutherland, MD, et al., GI Research Group, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, published in the April 23 issue of The Lancet. Concluding that measurement of sucrose permeability "provides a new way to effectively screen large populations at risk of gastric damage," the study found that while specificity for abnormal endoscopy was 96%, "sensitivity of the [sucrose permeability] test for gastric ulceration was 84%."