A research group led by Assistant Professor Soichiro Sue of the Department of Gastroenterology, Yokohama City University Hospital has developed a smartphone app that can be used for preventive enlightenment and testing of Helicobacter pylori for young people. From January 2019, 1, we started a campaign business to provide a self-test kit for Helicobacter pylori to 14 new adults in Yokohama city.
Helicobacter pylori (Helicobacter pylori) is said to be infected in about half of Japanese people, and when infected, it is said to be a bacterium that damages the gastric mucosa and causes gastritis, gastric ulcer, and gastric cancer.In addition, since this Helicobacter pylori can suppress the occurrence of stomach diseases by eradicating it at the stage where it does not cause illness, it is possible to reduce the risk by eradicating it from a young age.Understanding, testing, and treating infection at an early stage is effective in preventing gastric cancer.
The period of the "Free Helicobacter pylori test kit distribution campaign" for new adults in Yokohama city will be from January 2019th to January 1st, 14.Get the dedicated app and answer the quiz.The kit will be provided to 1 people who have answered correctly and wish to have the test kit by lottery.Winners perform a test using urine on a test strip, and by importing the image of the test strip into the app, the test result is sent by the app, and the doctor's judgment is to know the evaluation of the presence or absence of Pyrroli bacteria infection on the app. be able to.
This project was adopted by the Yokohama City Leading Business Grant System (trial grant), and in the future, in collaboration with industry, we will realize life innovation that leads to disease awareness, prevention, and treatment as an industry-government-academia collaboration project. It is a concept to do.
