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1 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163
2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
3 Department of Human Nutrition and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612
4 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
5 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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We thank Snijder et al. (1) for their insightful comments regarding our article (2). They direct our attention to an additional potential explanation for the association we observed between smaller hip circumference and increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. In particular, they argue that the