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We thank Dr RP Young and Ms RJ Hopkins for their interest in our article and their constructive comments.1
We agree with Dr RP Young and Ms RJ Hopkins that our analyses may suggest a threshold effect. However, we believe that more studies are needed before we firmly can assume a threshold effect. It is true that that the association between vitamin D level and FEV1% predicted was mirrored by a corresponding association between …
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Contributors SA and BGN drafted the response, which was amended and finally approved by PL, SEB and JJF.
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Competing interests PL received during the last 5 years pharmaceutical company grants from GSK in 2010 and 2011, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Almirall in 2012 via his home institution and also participated in speaking activities, industry advisory committee or other related activities sponsored by Almirall, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Novartis, GSK, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Mundipharma and UCB during the period 2008–2012.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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