1Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
2Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taitung, Taiwan
3Department of Nursing, Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan
4Department of Internal Medicine, E-DA Hospital and I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
5Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
6Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
7Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
8Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
9Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
10Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan
11Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
12Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
13Department of Molecular Medicine, Taipei Institute of Pathology, Taipei, Taiwan
14School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Correspondence: Ming-Shiang Wu, MD, PhD, E-DA Hospital and I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan E-mail: [email protected]
Correspondence: Ming-Shiang Wu, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Primary Care Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected]
15These authors contributed equally to this work
Received 29 September 2015; accepted 07 December 2015
Guarantor of the article: Jyh-Ming Liou, MD, PhD.
Specific author contribution: Conceived the study, with input from all the other listed contributors from the Taiwan Gastrointestinal Disease and Helicobacter Consortium and designed the study: Jyh-Ming Liou and Ming-Shiang Wu; wrote the protocol and prepared the statistical analyses: Jyh-Ming Liou;. recruited patients to the study: Jyh-Ming Liou, Ming-Jong Bair, Chieh-Chang Chen, Yi-Chia Lee, Mei-Jyh Chen, Chien-Chuan Chen, Cheng-Hao Tseng, Yu-Jen Fang, Ji-Yuh Lee, Tsung-Hua Yang, Jiing-Chyuan Luo, Jeng-Yih Wu, Wen-Hsiung Chang, Chun-Chao Chang, Chi-Yi Chen, Po-Yueh Chen, Chia-Tung Chang, Jaw-Town Lin, and Ming-Shiang Wu; contributed to the histological assessment: Chia-Tung Shun; contributed to the genotyping: Hsu-Wei Hung; drafted the article, which was critically revised by Chi-Yang Chang and Ming-Shiang Wu: Jyh-Ming Liou. All authors commented on drafts and approved the final version. All authors had full access to the data and participated in the decision to submit for publication. contributed equally as corresponding authors: Chi-Yang Chang and Ming-Shiang Wu.
Financial support: This study was funded by the Taipei Institute of Pathology (104-02), National Taiwan University Hospital (103-002516), and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan, ROC, Taiwan (Grant Number: NSC 103-2325-B-002-022, NSC102-2628-B-002-034-MY3 and NSC 102-2325-B-002-074). The lansoprazole used in the present study was provided for free by the Takeda Company (Taiwan).
Potential competing interests: None.
