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RE: “DETECTING SMALL-AREA SIMILARITIES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1: A BAYESIAN APPROACH”

RE: “DETECTING SMALL-AREA SIMILARITIES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC... American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 162, No. 11 Copyright ª 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A. Letters to the Editor RE: ‘‘DETECTING SMALL-AREA SIMILARITIES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1: A BAYESIAN APPROACH’’ Feltbower et al. (1) failed to replicate previous findings We carried out analyses of incidence of the two diseases from an ecologic study of a positive international correla- by calendar period and birth cohort for the period 1984–2000 tion (r ¼ 0.53) between the incidence rates of childhood and ages 0–14 years. In order to analyze a sufficient number acute lymphoblastic leukemia and childhood type 1 (insulin- of points in time, analyses by the cohort of birth were limited dependent) diabetes (2). Carrying out an elegant analysis, to the 10-year age classes in which the incidences peak: 0–9 they investigated whether the incidences of the two diseases years for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (75 cases born be- correlate within small areas in a region in the north of the tween 1979 and 1986) and 5–14 years for diabetes (169 cases United Kingdom. The estimated correlation was 0.33, which born between http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Epidemiology Oxford University Press

RE: “DETECTING SMALL-AREA SIMILARITIES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1: A BAYESIAN APPROACH”

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Oxford University Press
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.
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0002-9262
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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 162, No. 11 Copyright ª 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A. Letters to the Editor RE: ‘‘DETECTING SMALL-AREA SIMILARITIES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA AND DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1: A BAYESIAN APPROACH’’ Feltbower et al. (1) failed to replicate previous findings We carried out analyses of incidence of the two diseases from an ecologic study of a positive international correla- by calendar period and birth cohort for the period 1984–2000 tion (r ¼ 0.53) between the incidence rates of childhood and ages 0–14 years. In order to analyze a sufficient number acute lymphoblastic leukemia and childhood type 1 (insulin- of points in time, analyses by the cohort of birth were limited dependent) diabetes (2). Carrying out an elegant analysis, to the 10-year age classes in which the incidences peak: 0–9 they investigated whether the incidences of the two diseases years for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (75 cases born be- correlate within small areas in a region in the north of the tween 1979 and 1986) and 5–14 years for diabetes (169 cases United Kingdom. The estimated correlation was 0.33, which born between

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Published: Dec 1, 2005

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