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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on January 29, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwm398
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. 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

THREE AUTHORS REPLY

Chong-Shan Wang1,2, Shan-Tair Wang3 and Pesus Chou1

1 Community Medicine Research Center and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Republic of China
2 A-Lein Community Health Center, Kaohsiung County 822-48, Taiwan, Republic of China
3 Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan, Republic of China

(e-mail: pschou@ym.edu.tw)

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We appreciate Dr. Behrendt's comments (1) on our statistical methodology and conclusions (2). In this 7-year cohort study, 408 participants died. The mean annual mortality rate was 1.2 percent for total participants, 408/4,958, and 3.06 percent for those aged 65 years or more, 263/1,227 (2). Several points . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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