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Recent studies have indicated that people develop ulcers more due to the fact that their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than stress.

A. due to the fact that their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than stress
B. due to their mucous membranes becoming infected by Helicobacter pylori than to having too much stress
C. because their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than that they have too much stress
D. because their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than because they have too much stress -because x than because y -Good!
E. because of their mucous membranes becoming infected by Helicobacter pylori than because of their having too much stress

Due to -means "caused by" in GMAT ;so A&B -out
C-"that" -not parallel to because
E-too wordy/awkward

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Yes you are right due to means caused by
but I would like to add one more point
Due to is adjective and can only modify noun or noun phrase and can never modify a verb
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Recent studies have indicated that people develop ulcers more due to the fact that their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than stress.

A. due to the fact that their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than stress
B. due to their mucous membranes becoming infected by Helicobacter pylori than to having too much stress
C. because their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than that they have too much stress
D. because their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than because they have too much stress
E. because of their mucous membranes becoming infected by Helicobacter pylori than because of their having too much stress

Correct usage of parallelism ...

Recent studies have indicated that people develop ulcers more because their mucous membranes become infected by Helicobacter pylori than because they have too much stress.

The correct idiomatic usage is : More X than Y

Hence, answer must be (D)
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