Title: Exercise is inversely associated with functional dyspepsia among a sample of Chinese
male armed police recruits
Version: 1 Date: 19 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review the revised version of this article. The authors
revised the manuscript according to the comments partly. However, the reviewer thought that thy
should revise the manuscript more before further considerations. I listed my comments below.
Comments:
AR, authors’ response; AC, additional comment
Methods:
1. The recruiting process is unclear. The authors should explain about the details.
AR: I'm sorry for not making our article clear. In our study, 2657 recruits completed the
questionnaire, after excluded 63 recruits due to incomplete data, there were 2594 recruits met
inclusion and exclusion criteria, and included in final analysis. We have included a flow chart
in the article. See revised manuscript results section, Line 4-6, Page 7; Figure 1.
AC: The reviewer would like to know the process before completing the questionnaire. How
did the authors distribute and collect the questionnaire? How did the authors explain about this
study? Who did contribute this process?
2. How did the authors select the confounding variables of their analysis?
AR: I'm sorry for not making our article clear. Multiple logistic regression analyses, the ability
of exercise to distinguish FD from non-FD was assessed by adjusting demographic variables,
include age, BMI, ethnicity, marriage, education, smoking, and drinking variables. FD, IBS and
FC all belong to functional gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, in this article, we also excluded
participants with IBS and FC in multivariate model analysis to exclude confounding factors to
make the results more stable. We had added this in the article. See revised manuscript methods
section, Line 18-21, Page 6.
AC: The authors should describe “how” did the authors select these variables. The words
“demographic variables” is not an explanation. Not only that, the authors check the model
fittings.
Results:
3. The authors should add the total number of potential participants of their study. In addition
to this, they should add a flow diagram of this study.
AR: We thank the reviewer for pointing this out, and the comments are very helpful for us
to improve our paper. In our study, 2657 recruits completed the In our study, 2657 recruits
completed the questionnaire, questionnaire, after excluded 63 recruits due to incomplete data,
there were 2594 recruits met inclusion and exclusion criteria, and included in final analysis. We
have We have included a flow chart in the article. included a flow chart in the article. See revised
manuscript results section, Line 4-6, Page 7; Figure 1.
AC: The number of “2657 recruits” covered all the recruits of Chinese male armed police? The
authors answered about the “principle of confidentiality of military information” for another
question. It can be limitation, and they should clearly write about it in the Discussion section.
Title: Exercise is inversely associated with functional dyspepsia among a sample of Chinese
male armed police recruits
Version: 1 Date: 19 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review the revised version of this article. The authors
revised the manuscript according to the comments partly. However, the reviewer thought that thy
should revise the manuscript more before further considerations. I listed my comments below.
Comments:
AR, authors’ response; AC, additional comment
Methods:
1. The recruiting process is unclear. The authors should explain about the details.
AR: I'm sorry for not making our article clear. In our study, 2657 recruits completed the
questionnaire, after excluded 63 recruits due to incomplete data, there were 2594 recruits met
inclusion and exclusion criteria, and included in final analysis. We have included a flow chart
in the article. See revised manuscript results section, Line 4-6, Page 7; Figure 1.
AC: The reviewer would like to know the process before completing the questionnaire. How
did the authors distribute and collect the questionnaire? How did the authors explain about this
study? Who did contribute this process?
2. How did the authors select the confounding variables of their analysis?
AR: I'm sorry for not making our article clear. Multiple logistic regression analyses, the ability
of exercise to distinguish FD from non-FD was assessed by adjusting demographic variables,
include age, BMI, ethnicity, marriage, education, smoking, and drinking variables. FD, IBS and
FC all belong to functional gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, in this article, we also excluded
participants with IBS and FC in multivariate model analysis to exclude confounding factors to
make the results more stable. We had added this in the article. See revised manuscript methods
section, Line 18-21, Page 6.
AC: The authors should describe “how” did the authors select these variables. The words
“demographic variables” is not an explanation. Not only that, the authors check the model
fittings.
Results:
3. The authors should add the total number of potential participants of their study. In addition
to this, they should add a flow diagram of this study.
AR: We thank the reviewer for pointing this out, and the comments are very helpful for us
to improve our paper. In our study, 2657 recruits completed the In our study, 2657 recruits
completed the questionnaire, questionnaire, after excluded 63 recruits due to incomplete data,
there were 2594 recruits met inclusion and exclusion criteria, and included in final analysis. We
have We have included a flow chart in the article. included a flow chart in the article. See revised
manuscript results section, Line 4-6, Page 7; Figure 1.
AC: The number of “2657 recruits” covered all the recruits of Chinese male armed police? The
authors answered about the “principle of confidentiality of military information” for another
question. It can be limitation, and they should clearly write about it in the Discussion section.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Exercise is inversely associated with functional dyspepsia among a sample of Chinese
male armed police recruits
Version: 1 Date: 19 Nov 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review the revised version of this article. The authors
revised the manuscript according to the comments partly. However, the reviewer thought that thy
should revise the manuscript more before further considerations. I listed my comments below.
Comments:
AR, authors’ response; AC, additional comment
Methods:
1. The recruiting process is unclear. The authors should explain about the details.
AR: I'm sorry for not making our article clear. In our study, 2657 recruits completed the
questionnaire, after excluded 63 recruits due to incomplete data, there were 2594 recruits met
inclusion and exclusion criteria, and included in final analysis. We have included a flow chart
in the article. See revised manuscript results section, Line 4-6, Page 7; Figure 1.
AC: The reviewer would like to know the process before completing the questionnaire. How
did the authors distribute and collect the questionnaire? How did the authors explain about this
study? Who did contribute this process?
2. How did the authors select the confounding variables of their analysis?
AR: I'm sorry for not making our article clear. Multiple logistic regression analyses, the ability
of exercise to distinguish FD from non-FD was assessed by adjusting demographic variables,
include age, BMI, ethnicity, marriage, education, smoking, and drinking variables. FD, IBS and
FC all belong to functional gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, in this article, we also excluded
participants with IBS and FC in multivariate model analysis to exclude confounding factors to
make the results more stable. We had added this in the article. See revised manuscript methods
section, Line 18-21, Page 6.
AC: The authors should describe “how” did the authors select these variables. The words
“demographic variables” is not an explanation. Not only that, the authors check the model
fittings.
Results:
3. The authors should add the total number of potential participants of their study. In addition
to this, they should add a flow diagram of this study.
AR: We thank the reviewer for pointing this out, and the comments are very helpful for us
to improve our paper. In our study, 2657 recruits completed the In our study, 2657 recruits
completed the questionnaire, questionnaire, after excluded 63 recruits due to incomplete data,
there were 2594 recruits met inclusion and exclusion criteria, and included in final analysis. We
have We have included a flow chart in the article. included a flow chart in the article. See revised
manuscript results section, Line 4-6, Page 7; Figure 1.
AC: The number of “2657 recruits” covered all the recruits of Chinese male armed police? The
authors answered about the “principle of confidentiality of military information” for another
question. It can be limitation, and they should clearly write about it in the Discussion section.
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