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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on May 9, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 166(2):236; doi:10.1093/aje/kwm118
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2007. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FOUR AUTHORS REPLY

N Alder1, L Rushton2, AJ Sutton3 and DR Jones3

1 Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom OX2 6UD
2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom W2 1PG
3 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom LE1 7RH

(e-mail: ajs22{at}le.ac.uk)

We would like to thank Dr. Monson (1) for pointing out the error in our data extraction relating to percentage lost to follow-up for his paper (2) that we included in our meta-analysis (3). Since loss to follow-up was actually less than 2 percent, the adequacy grading in table 2 of this paper should be recoded to be "Virtually complete." The corresponding value for a subsequent paper relating to the same cohort (4) may also need to be modified.

Since, as we note in the paper, most outcomes (including overall and leukemia mortality on which the effect of loss to follow-up is considered) are taken from a later paper relating to this cohort (5), for which loss to follow-up was not specified, the analyses we present are unaffected.


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Conflict of interest: none declared.


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  2. Monson RR, Nakano KK. Mortality among rubber workers. I. White male union employees in Akron, Ohio. Am J Epidemiol (1976) 103:284–96.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  3. Alder N, Fenty J, Warren F, et al. Meta-analysis of mortality and cancer incidence among workers in the synthetic rubber-producing industry. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 164:405–20.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
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