What is Peptic Ulcer? What does it mean? Peptic Ulcer meaning, definition & explanation

Peptic ulcers affect approximately 4% of the population. In 2013, they were first introduced to around 53 million individuals. It affects about 10% of people at some time in their lives. In 2013, they caused 301,000 deaths, down from 327,000 in 1990. Princess Henrietta of England described the first perforated peptic ulcer in 1670. H. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren discovered that H.Pylori causes peptic ulcers in the late twentieth century, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2005.