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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2011 Jul 21;378(9790):507–514. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60825-8

Table 4.

Summary of H. pylori eradication by treatment arm and selected baseline characteristics for ITT population

Treatment Regimen N Eradicated
Difference from Standard Arm Adjusted 95% CI P-value for Interaction*
N Percent
Gender 0·91

Female 861

14-day Standard 287 234 81·5% (referent)
5-day Concomitant 288 207 71·9% 9·7% 1·8%, 17·5%
10-day Sequential 286 214 74·8% 6·7% −1·4%, 14·8%

Male 602

14-day Standard 201 167 83·1%
5-day Concomitant 201 153 76·1% 7·0% −2·0%, 15·9%
10-day Sequential 200 158 79·0% 4·1% −5·2%, 13·3%

Age 0·21

40 years or younger 663

14-day Standard 222 182 82·0%
5-day Concomitant 220 164 74·5% 7·4% −1·3%, 16·2%
10-day Sequential 221 160 72·4% 9·6% 0·3%, 18·9%

Older than 40 years 800

14-day Standard 266 219 82·3%
5-day Concomitant 269 196 72·9% 9·5% 1·4%, 17·5%
10-day Sequential 265 212 80·0% 2·3% −5·6%, 10·3%

Chronic Dyspeptic Symptoms 0·38

Absent 1090

14-day Standard 363 297 81·8%
5-day Concomitant 368 277 75·3% 6·5% −0·2%, 13·3%
10-day Sequential 359 281 78·3% 3·5% −3·4%, 10·5%

Present 373

14-day Standard 125 104 83·2%
5-day Concomitant 121 83 68·6% 14·6% 2·5%, 26·7%
10-day Sequential 127 91 71·7% 11·5% −0·9%, 24·0%

Study Site 0·28

Santiago, Chile 209

14-day Standard 69 59 85·5%
5-day Concomitant 70 46 65·7% 19·8% 3·9%, 35·7%
10-day Sequential 70 59 84·3% 1·2% −13·6%, 16·1%

Túquerres, Colombia 212

14-day Standard 71 58 81·7%
5-day Concomitant 72 58 80·6% 1·1% −13·5%, 15·8%
10-day Sequential 69 54 78·3% 3·4% −13·2%, 20·0%

Guanacaste, Costa Rica 210

14-day Standard 70 61 87·1%
5-day Concomitant 70 54 77·1% 10·0% −4·4%, 24·4%
10-day Sequential 70 63 90·0% −2·9% −16·3%, 10·6%

Copán, Honduras 213

14-day Standard 70 66 94·3%
5-day Concomitant 72 62 86·1% 8·2% −2·9%, 19·2%
10-day Sequential 71 58 81·7% 12·6% −0·8%, 26%

Tapachula, México 210

14-day Standard 71 55 77·5%
5-day Concomitant 69 50 72·5% 5·0% −11·4%, 21·4%
10-day Sequential 70 47 67·1% 10·4% −7·9%, 28·5%

Ciudad Obregón, México 210

14-day Standard 70 54 77·1%
5-day Concomitant 69 47 68·1% 9·0% −7·8%, 25·9%
10-day Sequential 71 47 66·2% 10·9% −7·4%, 29·2%

León, Nicaragua 199

14-day Standard 67 48 71·6%
5-day Concomitant 67 43 64·2% 7·4% −10·6%, 25·5%
10-day Sequential 65 44 67·7% 3·9% −15·5%, 23·4%
*

P-value for Chi-squared drop-in-deviance test for significance of interaction with treatment regimen in a logistic regression model controlling for main effects of treatment and baseline covariate