American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 6, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 165(1):114; doi:10.1093/aje/kwk096
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
THE FIRST AUTHOR REPLIES
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
(e-mail: karri.silventoinen@helsinki.fi)
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We thank Mr. Samaras for his comments (1). We are well aware of the studies included in his and his colleagues' previous review article (2) but do not see any discrepancy between them and our current results (3). Samaras makes a fundamental error