There is an error in the Results subsection of the Abstract as well as third paragraph of the Results section. In both of these instances, 43.9% should be 43.1%.
There is an error in the caption of Fig 3. The authors have provided a corrected caption for Fig 3 here.
Fig 3. Prevalence of GERD at baseline and 1 year after attempted smoking cessation.
The number of patients that experienced improvement in GERD was significantly higher in the success group (43.1%) than in the failure group (18.2%). Seven (7.8%) of the patients within the success group and 2 (7.1%) of the 28 patients within the failure group newly developed GERD at 1 year after the treatment.
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