IJE Advance Access originally published online on March 31, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(3):740; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl061
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Response: Response to the Stampfer commentary
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
* Corresponding author. E-mail: joe.kim@lshtm.ac.uk
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We thank Dr Stampfer for his helpful comments.1 We agree with his interpretation that unmeasured confounding is unlikely to be the only explanation for the HRT controversy given the available evidence in literature. However, we disagree with his remarks concerning our definition of the term initiation, where he suggests we have used misleading