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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: By the end of the follow-up period, patients with GERD symptoms or endoscopic esophagitis were more prevalent in the successful than in the failed eradication group (37 % [95 % CI : 25-50 %] vs 13 % [95 % CI : 3-32 %], p = 0. 04, 95 % CI for the difference : 6-42 %), as were patients with GERD symptoms alone (29 % [95 % CI : 18-41 %] vs 8 % [95 % CI : 1-27 %], p = 0. 04, 95 % CI for the difference : 4-36 %) or esophagitis alone (21 % [95 % CI : 12-33 %] vs 4 % [95 % CI : 0-21 %], p = 0. 10, 95 % CI for the difference : 4-29 %, respectively).