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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;88:1728. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.142
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Correspondence

On the Association Between Body Mass Index and Barrett's Esophagus

Michael B. Cook, PhDa, Darren C. Greenwood, PhDb, Laura J. Hardie, PhDc, David Forman, PhDd, Christopher P. Wild, PhDe

a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS 5012, Rockville, MD 20852-7234
b Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom
c Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom
d Cancer Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom
e International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon CEDEX 08, 69372 France

(Email: cookmich@mail.nih.gov; d.c.greenwood@leeds.ac.uk; laura.j.hardie@leeds.ac.uk; d.forman@leeds.ac.uk; director@iarc.fr).

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the recent systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between body mass index (BMI) and Barrett's esophagus (BE) by Kamat and colleagues [1]. The authors found a positive association between increasing BMI and BE, and then proceeded to state: "Based on the results of eight studies that compared subjects . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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