Table 3.
Healing rates according to ulcer size in the gastric ulcer study
| Ulcer size (mm) | GU |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eradication therapy + PPI |
Eradication therapy + GP |
p value | |||
| healed/all patients | % | healed / all patients | % | ||
| ITT analysis | |||||
| 5≤diam<10 | 9(1)/11(1) | 82 [48–98] | 14(3)/17(5) | 82 [57–96] | 0.971 |
| 10≤diam<15 | 11(4)/16(4) | 69 [41–89] | 10(2)/15(3) | 67 [38–88] | 0.901 |
| diam≥15 | 28(4)/33(4) | 85 [68–95] | 10(3)/23(6) | 43 [23–66] | 0.001 |
| PP analysis | |||||
| 5≤diam<10 | 9(1)/10(1) | 90 [55–100] | 14(3)/17(5) | 82 [57–96] | 0.589 |
| 10≤diam<15 | 11(4)/13(4) | 85 [55–98] | 10(2)/12(3) | 83 [52–98] | 0.930 |
| diam≥15 | 28(4)/32(4) | 88 [71–96] | 10(3)/22(6) | 45 [24–68] | 0.001 |
Numbers in ( ) denote number of patients in which H. pylori eradication was unsuccessful. Numbers in [ ] are 95%CI: lower to upper. diam: diameter; ITT = intention-to-treat; PP = per protocol. Ratios were analysed using the χ2 test.