The presence of dyspeptic complaints in patients with peptic ulceration recorded in particular during the period of new ulcers and receding despite persistence of H. pylori infection and active antral gastritis after cure of the ulcer, is indirect but important evidence that H. pylori and antral gastritis do not participate in the dyspeptic complaints. The absence of frequent gastric dyspepsia in patients with advanced and frequently atrophic gastritis, typical for pernicious anaemia casts doubts also on the importance of corporal gastritis for the development of gastric complaints. Chronic gastritis, antral or corporal, active or inactive, conditioned by H. pylori or in the absence of H. pylori cannot be considered factors explaining gastric dyspepsia.

        Key words: chronic gastritis – peptic ulceration – dyspepsia