American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on January 27, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwm399
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RE: "HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES IN A COMMUNITY-BASED LONGITUDINAL STUDY"
From the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010
(e-mail: cbehrendt@coh.org)
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With their 7-year, prospective study of incident type 2 diabetes in a community with high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV), Wang et al. (1) have generated valuable data for studying the contribution of HCV to the development of diabetes. However, I believe that the statistical methodology was inappropriate and
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