Erratum to: Inflamm Res DOI 10.1007/s00011-009-0110-y

The original version of this article unfortunately contains a mistake. The correct address of Ju Gao should read “Department of Anesthesiology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu, China”. And the correct address of Luo-Jing Zhou should read “Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu, China”.