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We identified scattered white spots (SWSs) as an endoscopic finding of chronic acid suppression in the duodenum and aimed to confirm this association.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Patients and Methods In this single-center, two-arm, retrospective study, we reviewed 200 patients who underwent outpatient esophagogastroduodenoscopy: 100 consecutive patients receiving continuous acid-suppression (proton pump inhibitors [PPI] or potassium-competitive acid blockers [P-CAB] \u2265 8 weeks) and 100 consecutive patients with no history of acid-suppression therapy. Two blinded expert endoscopists independently reviewed all white-light endoscopic images of the descending duodenum. SWSs were graded 0 (absent\/minimal), 1 (present) or 2 (dense). SWS positive was defined as a combined score \u22652 of the two independent evaluators.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Results A total of 648 images from 200 patients (mean age 62 years, 62.5% male) were analyzed. The acid-suppression group included 58 PPI users and 42 P-CAB users. The SWS-positive rates were significantly higher in the acid-suppression group than the non-suppression group (47% vs. 15%; OR 4.33; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.20\u22128.50; P &lt; 0.0001). Interobserver agreement was substantial (weighted \u03ba = 0.77; 95% CI, 0.68\u22120.85). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed acid-suppression therapy as an independent factor for SWS (adjusted OR 6.10; 95% CI, 2.89\u221213.7; P &lt; 0.0001).<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Conclusions Long-term gastric acid suppression is significantly associated with the presence of duodenal SWS. Duodenal SWS associated with PPIs and P-CABs are under-recognized, and further studies are warranted to determine their clinical significance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-2923-5524","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,25]],"date-time":"2026-07-25T00:45:13Z","timestamp":1784940313000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"special_numbering":"S","title":["Association between Gastric Acid Suppression Therapy and Scattered White Spots in the Duodenum: A Retrospective Observational Study"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Mamoru","family":"Ito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan","place":["Tokyo"],"department":["Department of Endoscopy"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Masakuni","family":"Kobayashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan","place":["Tokyo"],"department":["Department of 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