Reply to B Watzl and G Rechkemmer
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Reply to B Watzl and G Rechkemmer Dominique S Michaud 1 , Edward Giovannucci 2 and Walter C Willett 2 1 Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20852, E-mail: michaudd@mail.nih.gov 2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215 Dear Sir: We are grateful for the opportunity to inform readers of an error in our publication in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in November 2000 [( 1 ); erratum in press]. The error, which does not affect the conclusions, pertains to the distribution of men (in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study cohort) across categories of servings of vegetables per day [Table 1 of the article by Michels et al ( 1 )]. It is shown in Table 1 that 89% of men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study cohort ate ≤2 servings of vegetables daily; however, this is incorrect. The median intake of total vegetables in this cohort was 3.1 servings/d; the distribution is presented in Table 1 of the article by Michaud et al ( 2 ). At baseline, almost 20% of men consumed ≥5 servings of vegetables daily. We would like to raise a few additional points. In our