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  • Published on: 11 May 2018
    Response to the reader's eLetter
    • Jun MA, Professor Peking University

    We thank the reader for identifying these errors and a correction to the article will be published shortly.

    Conflict of Interest:
    None declared.
  • Published on: 9 May 2018
    Letter to the Editor “Association between exposure to the Chinese famine during infancy and the risk of self-reported chronic lung diseases in adulthood a cross-sectional study”
    • tao tao, Master's degree in reading School of Public Health, Department of Statistics

    We recently read with great interest an article entitled “Association between exposure to the Chinese famine during infancy and the risk of self-reported chronic lung diseases in adulthood a cross-sectional study, ” by Zhenghe Wang(2017) in BMJ Open 7(5), e015476.The authors examine the association between early-life exposure to the Chinese famine and the risk of chronic lung diseases in adulthood. This study makes a worthy contribution to the area. However, some issues should be taken into account.

    In the paper, there are some mistakes in the figure 1 which named “Flowchart on the sample selecting methods at each step”, Combine the context, the number of non-exposed(855)、fetal-exposed(830)、infant-exposed(568)、preschool-exposed(630) groups are wrong in the second line from the bottom. We would like to bring to your attention the errors in methods reported in the aforementioned article.

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    None declared.