The authors thank Shiri for his questions and concerns [
[1]
] and appreciate the opportunity to respond to them. The primary concern was that the
study population may be sicker than the general Israeli population and thus the reported
prevalence of obesity and co-morbidities in the study population is not representative
of the general Israeli population. We respond to this with two points: the first clarifies
our selection of the study population and the second describes disease prevalence
data in the Clalit Health System.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: July 04, 2016
Accepted:
June 17,
2016
Received in revised form:
June 16,
2016
Received:
June 6,
2016
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