Title:  Evaluating the relationship between dietary flavonoids intake and Constipation Incidence
in the General US Population
Version: 2 Date: 20 Nov 2024
Reviewer:  Luca Massaro
Reviewer's report:
I thank the authors for accepting and implementing the additional analyses on fiber intake I
requested, and for a general streamline of the paper.
After the modifications I don't find any problems with the results. However there are still some
minor modifications I'd like you to implement, if the authors agree:
line 178
"Despite the p-trend for flavan-3-ols being 0.06, which is only marginally above the
conventional significance level of 0.05" I think that the "marginally above" argumentation
should not be made and should be removed.
line 233
"flavonoids as well as all flavonoids subclasses intake exhibited a significantly decreased risk
of constipation"  which is then corrected for the identified confounding factors.  I think this
sentence is misleading and should be removed.
Title:  Evaluating the relationship between dietary flavonoids intake and Constipation Incidence
in the General US Population
Version: 2 Date: 20 Nov 2024
Reviewer:  Luca Massaro
Reviewer's report:
I thank the authors for accepting and implementing the additional analyses on fiber intake I
requested, and for a general streamline of the paper.
After the modifications I don't find any problems with the results. However there are still some
minor modifications I'd like you to implement, if the authors agree:
line 178
"Despite the p-trend for flavan-3-ols being 0.06, which is only marginally above the
conventional significance level of 0.05" I think that the "marginally above" argumentation
should not be made and should be removed.
line 233
"flavonoids as well as all flavonoids subclasses intake exhibited a significantly decreased risk
of constipation"  which is then corrected for the identified confounding factors.  I think this
sentence is misleading and should be removed.
Please review this paper.
user
Title:  Evaluating the relationship between dietary flavonoids intake and Constipation Incidence
in the General US Population
Version: 2 Date: 20 Nov 2024
Reviewer:  Luca Massaro
Reviewer's report:
I thank the authors for accepting and implementing the additional analyses on fiber intake I
requested, and for a general streamline of the paper.
After the modifications I don't find any problems with the results. However there are still some
minor modifications I'd like you to implement, if the authors agree:
line 178
"Despite the p-trend for flavan-3-ols being 0.06, which is only marginally above the
conventional significance level of 0.05" I think that the "marginally above" argumentation
should not be made and should be removed.
line 233
"flavonoids as well as all flavonoids subclasses intake exhibited a significantly decreased risk
of constipation"  which is then corrected for the identified confounding factors.  I think this
sentence is misleading and should be removed.
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