American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on July 4, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(5):496; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn154
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Nielsen et al. Respond to "Stress and Mortality"
1 National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
2 National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 The Copenhagen City Heart Study, Epidemiological Research Unit, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Correspondence to Dr. Naja Rod Nielsen, National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1399 Copenhagen K, Denmark (e-mail: nrn@niph.dk).
Received for publication May 1, 2008. Accepted for publication May 2, 2008.
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We welcome this opportunity to answer the comments by Hotopf et al. (1) on our paper (2). They bring up a number of important issues in relation to the topic of stress and mortality, such as the definition of stress, the validity of the measurements, confounding, causal pathways, and the potential