Title: The association between night eating syndrome and GERD symptoms among university
students at An-Najah National University in Palestine: a cross-sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 06 Apr 2024
Reviewer:  Abdelhady Elgilany Elgilany
Reviewer's report:
*Needs language & grammatical editing as well as statistical consultation
*Use AOR rather than Exp (B) throughout the text. AOR is more familiar to clinicians
*Sample size calculation: vague & confusing. What is the precision?  Line 108.:The difference
is lacking reference and is tool high (conventionally should be 0.05, 0.03 or 0.01, not 10%)
*What is voluntary sample?
*Merge tables 1,2 & 3 & add GERD risk to the new table s. Delete fig 1.
*Merge tables 4,5 & 6. Title of 3rd column: use N(%) not risk. Calculate COR (95%CI) for each
variable with defined reference category.
Table 7: wrong & confusing.  What is the lower & upper limit of CI presented? Why 2 p-values?
What is the difference?  for BMI add: (continuous) as it has no reference category. Smoking is
a predictors of GERD (please revise in discussion). Physical activity, BMI & non-smoking are
protective with exp(B0 <1 but their 05%CIs were risk (>1). Why this discrepancy?
Title: The association between night eating syndrome and GERD symptoms among university
students at An-Najah National University in Palestine: a cross-sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 06 Apr 2024
Reviewer:  Abdelhady Elgilany Elgilany
Reviewer's report:
*Needs language & grammatical editing as well as statistical consultation
*Use AOR rather than Exp (B) throughout the text. AOR is more familiar to clinicians
*Sample size calculation: vague & confusing. What is the precision?  Line 108.:The difference
is lacking reference and is tool high (conventionally should be 0.05, 0.03 or 0.01, not 10%)
*What is voluntary sample?
*Merge tables 1,2 & 3 & add GERD risk to the new table s. Delete fig 1.
*Merge tables 4,5 & 6. Title of 3rd column: use N(%) not risk. Calculate COR (95%CI) for each
variable with defined reference category.
Table 7: wrong & confusing.  What is the lower & upper limit of CI presented? Why 2 p-values?
What is the difference?  for BMI add: (continuous) as it has no reference category. Smoking is
a predictors of GERD (please revise in discussion). Physical activity, BMI & non-smoking are
protective with exp(B0 <1 but their 05%CIs were risk (>1). Why this discrepancy?
Please review this paper.
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Title: The association between night eating syndrome and GERD symptoms among university
students at An-Najah National University in Palestine: a cross-sectional study
Version: 1 Date: 06 Apr 2024
Reviewer:  Abdelhady Elgilany Elgilany
Reviewer's report:
*Needs language & grammatical editing as well as statistical consultation
*Use AOR rather than Exp (B) throughout the text. AOR is more familiar to clinicians
*Sample size calculation: vague & confusing. What is the precision?  Line 108.:The difference
is lacking reference and is tool high (conventionally should be 0.05, 0.03 or 0.01, not 10%)
*What is voluntary sample?
*Merge tables 1,2 & 3 & add GERD risk to the new table s. Delete fig 1.
*Merge tables 4,5 & 6. Title of 3rd column: use N(%) not risk. Calculate COR (95%CI) for each
variable with defined reference category.
Table 7: wrong & confusing.  What is the lower & upper limit of CI presented? Why 2 p-values?
What is the difference?  for BMI add: (continuous) as it has no reference category. Smoking is
a predictors of GERD (please revise in discussion). Physical activity, BMI & non-smoking are
protective with exp(B0 <1 but their 05%CIs were risk (>1). Why this discrepancy?
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