American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 31, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 166(12):1481-1482; doi:10.1093/aje/kwm304
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1 Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
2 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
(e-mail: jmanson@rics.bwh.harvard.edu)
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We thank Dören and Greiser (1) and Rosenberg (2) for their interest in our commentary (3). We agree with Dören and Greiser that the meta-analyses of Salpeter et al. (4, 5) have limitations, but our argument concerning the validity of the timing hypothesis would be equally compelling if we omitted mention of these meta-analyses. Our thesis