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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(11):1132-1133; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi333
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Letter to the Editor

RE: "DETECTING SMALL-AREA SIMILARITIES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1: A BAYESIAN APPROACH"

Lorenzo Richiardi1, Corrado Magnani1,2, Graziella Bruno3, Milena M. Maule1, Franco Merletti1 and Guido Pastore1,4

1 Cancer Epidemiology Unit, CeRMS and CPO, University of Turin, 10127 Turin, Italy
2 Medical Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, Eastern Piedmont University, 28100 Novara, Italy
3 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turin, 10127 Turin, Italy
4 Division of Pediatrics, Medical Sciences Department, Eastern Piedmont University, 28100 Novara, Italy

(e-mail: lorenzo.richiardi@unito.it)

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Feltbower et al. (1Go) failed to replicate previous findings from an ecologic study of a positive international correlation (r = 0.53) between the incidence rates of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and childhood type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes (2Go). Carrying out an elegant analysis, they investigated whether the incidences of the two diseases . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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