THE SEX INCIDENCE OF PEPTIC ULCER IN CHILDREN

Abstract

Clinical and exptl. evidence is available showing a relationship between sex age and peptic ulcer. In 105 cases of peptic ulcers occurring in children between the ages of 1-12, 54.3% occurred in [male][male] and 45.7% in [female][female], a ratio of almost 1:1. After puberty it is well known that [male][male] have ulcers i as often as [male][male]. Sex hormones are excreted in children in increasing amts. from the age of 3 upward. Dividing the series into 2 groups, 1-6 and 7-12, shows that girls predominate in the younger age group, whereas in the older age group when sex hormones are excreted in greater quantities, the incidence is greater in boys, approaching adult figures.