The Assessment of Different Diets and Mortality Fails to Address Unmeasured Confounding-Reply

Zhilei Shan¹, Frank B Hu^{1

2

3}, Qibin Qi^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York.

Comment

Zhilei Shan et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 1;181(1):138-139.

doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.1388.

Zhilei Shan¹, Frank B Hu^{1

2

3}, Qibin Qi^{1

4}

¹ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York.

No abstract available

Comment on

Association of Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets With Mortality Among US Adults.
Shan Z, Guo Y, Hu FB, Liu L, Qi Q. Shan Z, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Apr 1;180(4):513-523. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.6980. JAMA Intern Med. 2020. PMID: 31961383 Free PMC article.
The Assessment of Different Diets and Mortality Fails to Address Unmeasured Confounding.
Gong CL, Zawadzki NK, Hay JW. Gong CL, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Jan 1;181(1):137-138. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.1391. JAMA Intern Med. 2021. PMID: 33196780 No abstract available.