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Letter
Reply to: Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment and the risk of gastric adenocarcinoma in a western population
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We recently discovered that we used a suboptimal method for a part of our statistical analyses in our paper published recently in Gut.1 This has affected the duration analyses (time since eradication of Helicobacter pylori) and associated risk of gastric cancer. Previously, we only assessed the risk of gastric cancer in those eradicated during the selected follow-up periods, and disregarded the other individuals who ideally should also have contributed person-time. …
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Contributors All authors contributed in the design of the paper and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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