Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:85-86.
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Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033-0800
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We thank Dr. Alonso et al. for their comments (1) on our paper (2) on dietary fish/shellfish intake and myocardial infarction mortality in middle-aged and older men in Shanghai, China. They raised the possibility of residual confounding in our observed association of fish consumption with fatal myocardial infarction, noting