Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:914.
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Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
THREE AUTHORS REPLY
Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, D-14558 Bergholz-Rehbrücke, Germany
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We thank Drs. Tseng and McCann (1) for their comments on our paper (2). We agree with Tseng and McCann that our study had several limitations, among them the relatively arbitrary food grouping applied and the limited number of cases involved, which we discussed in depth in our article (2). Still, the hypothesis-oriented pattern