Reply to SB Kritchevsky

摘要

My colleague and I would like to thank Dr Kritchevsky for his comments on our recent article in the Journal (1). Kritchevsky indicated that the "consumption of high-cholesterol foods could be considered nonadherent behavior" and that "nonadherer bias" may explain the greater risk of mortality observed with consumption of 7 eggs/wk among physicians with type 2 diabetes. Kritchevsky used the fact that egg consumption was associated with both smoking and a lower level of physical activity as evidence to support his theory. However, the positive association between egg consumption and fruit, vegetables, and multivitamins in the same data does not lend support to his hypothesis.