Table 2

Healing of erosive reflux disease (ERD) patients at four and eight weeks, according to endoscopic findings (patients with missing healing data were excluded)

	4 weeks			8 weeks
	n	% Healed	95% CI	n	% Healed	95% CI
Hp, Helicobacter pylori; BO, Barrett’s oesophagus; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.
p = 0.01, **p<0.0001, χ² test.
All patients	2221/2833	78.4	76.8–79.9	2515/2867	87.7	86.5–88.9
LA class A/B	1872/2292	81.7	80.0–83.2	2088/2312	90.3**	89.0–91.5
LA class C/D	349/541	64.5	60.3–68.6	427/555	76.9	73.2–80.4
Hp positive	548/657	83.4	80.3–86.2	603/665	90.7*	88.2–92.8
Hp negative	1645/2133	77.1	75.2–78.9	1877/2157	87.0	85.5–88.4
With BO	232/408	56.9	51.9–61.7	302/417	72.4***	67.9–76.7
Without BO	1989/2425	82.0	80.4–83.5	2213/2450	90.6	89.1–91.5