Erratum to: On the Association Between Soft Drink Consumption and Helicobacter pylori Infection

Abstract

Review of the article revealed numerous numerical errors, which are corrected in the three tables below. The association for age is changed from a strong positive association with Helicobacter pylori infection to a weak inverse relation. The other associations are qualitatively the same. The Abstract and Discussion have been edited accordingly.Abstract (Results): ''The results of the multiple logistic regression analysis showed that SD consumption (odds ratio = 4.0; 95 % confidence interval = 3.19-5.82, P \ 0.001), was associated with H. pylori infection.'' Discussion (Paragraph 4): ''Although the mean age of the Hp-infected subjects was greater than the non-infected subjects (51 ± 15.7 vs. 44 ± 15.3, p = 0.001), age overall was a weak inverse risk factor for Hp infection (OR 0.96 (0.94-0.98, p \ 0.001), partly consistent with the results of previously published studies, which reported that age was associated with H. pylori infection [8, 9,[28][29][30]. For example, Murray et al. found that the prevalence of H. pylori increases with age from 23.4 % in 12-to 14-yearolds to about 73 % in 60-to 64-year-olds in a study that was done in 4,742 randomly selected subjects in Northern Ireland [8]. Our results are in agreement with those of Zhang and others who have reported that age was negatively associated with H. pylori infection [9].''The online version of the original article can be found under