American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on July 20, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(5):419-420; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi225
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Prentice et al. Respond to "How Far Can Epidemiologists Get with Statistical Adjustment?"
1 Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
2 Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Correspondence to Dr. Ross Prentice, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, M3-A410, P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024 (e-mail: rprentic@fhcrc.org).
Received for publication May 16, 2005. Accepted for publication May 20, 2005.
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We thank Drs. Petitti and Freedman for their invited commentary (1
) on our paper (2
) that brought together data from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial and cohort study in an attempt to understand the apparent discrepancy between results from trials and observational studies on the topic of combined estrogen-plus-progestin postmenopausal hormone therapy and cardiovascular