Reviewer's report
Title:Bio-physical characteristics of gastrointestinal mucosa of celiac patients:
comparison with control subjects and effect of gluten free diet
Version: 4Date:31 August 2011
Reviewer: Evan Newnham
Reviewer's report:
This is a much improved version. A few suggestions are below.
Minor Essential Revisions
Could the authors please clarify the data '29+/- 1 month' in the results for length
of time on a GFD? if 1 month is to represent the 95% confidence interval, this
cannot be correct based on the values for the range in parentheses.
I would suggest describing each figure underneath the figure itself (as has been
done for table 1 (for example, in figure 1, without referring to the text the reader is
not informed as to which patient group these values are describing).
Can the data in figure 1 be combined onto the one graph? In addition the y axis
needs to be consistent for all figures.
Sentence 2 of the discussion (beginning "This bio-physical..." does not make
sense and needs to be reworded.
Regards
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Bio-physical characteristics of gastrointestinal mucosa of celiac patients:
comparison with control subjects and effect of gluten free diet
Version: 4Date:31 August 2011
Reviewer: Evan Newnham
Reviewer's report:
This is a much improved version. A few suggestions are below.
Minor Essential Revisions
Could the authors please clarify the data '29+/- 1 month' in the results for length
of time on a GFD? if 1 month is to represent the 95% confidence interval, this
cannot be correct based on the values for the range in parentheses.
I would suggest describing each figure underneath the figure itself (as has been
done for table 1 (for example, in figure 1, without referring to the text the reader is
not informed as to which patient group these values are describing).
Can the data in figure 1 be combined onto the one graph? In addition the y axis
needs to be consistent for all figures.
Sentence 2 of the discussion (beginning "This bio-physical..." does not make
sense and needs to be reworded.
Regards
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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Reviewer's report
Title:Bio-physical characteristics of gastrointestinal mucosa of celiac patients:
comparison with control subjects and effect of gluten free diet
Version: 4Date:31 August 2011
Reviewer: Evan Newnham
Reviewer's report:
This is a much improved version. A few suggestions are below.
Minor Essential Revisions
Could the authors please clarify the data '29+/- 1 month' in the results for length
of time on a GFD? if 1 month is to represent the 95% confidence interval, this
cannot be correct based on the values for the range in parentheses.
I would suggest describing each figure underneath the figure itself (as has been
done for table 1 (for example, in figure 1, without referring to the text the reader is
not informed as to which patient group these values are describing).
Can the data in figure 1 be combined onto the one graph? In addition the y axis
needs to be consistent for all figures.
Sentence 2 of the discussion (beginning "This bio-physical..." does not make
sense and needs to be reworded.
Regards
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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