Reply to: ALDH2 Glu504Lys Polymorphism and Susceptibility to Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction in East Asians: A Meta-analysis

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We thank the authors for the comments in regard to our recent study entitled "ALDH2 Glu504Lys Polymorphism and Susceptibility to Coronary Artery Disease and Myocar-dial Infarction in East Asians: A Meta-analysis" (1).First, we also reviewed the study by Xu et al. published in 2011 when we performed our meta-analysis (2), However, this paper shared the same authors with one of the included studies (3). Patients included in these two papers were selected from the same hospital and the enrolled time had an overlapping portion (from April 2007 to December 2007 for the early published paper; from September 2007 to December 2007 for the latter published paper). Because the first paper focused on the patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease (CAD) and the second included patients with primary ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STE-MI), the second paper therefore should also be included in this meta-analysis.