Response to "Unhealthy lifestyles accelerated aging and consequential musculoskeletal morbidity: a critical appraisal"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
² Wuhan Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases, Wuhan, 430015, Hubei, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. wangqi_tj@hust.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

Hao-Long Zhou et al. J Bone Miner Metab. 2025.

. 2025 Oct 7.

doi: 10.1007/s00774-025-01649-0. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
² Wuhan Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases, Wuhan, 430015, Hubei, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China. wangqi_tj@hust.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of interest: All authors have no conflicts of interest.

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