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Reply: Some problems with Cochrane reviews of diet and chronic disease

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 60, pages 929–930 (2006)Cite this article

I thank Lee Hooper, Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim for courteous and reasoned comments on my review of two reviews they published on dietary fat and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and on advice to reduce salt intake and blood pressure. Their letter makes the usual excellent points that randomization is an ideal and that observational studies can be greatly weakened by all sorts of confounding.

My paper was presented, with some trepidation, at an international session attended by some of the leaders of the Cochrane collaboration, because I believe I was expressing views of a number of nutrition scientists who advise on food and nutrition policy.

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