Reviewer's report
Title:Celiac disease risk varies between birth cohorts, generating hypotheses
about causality: evidence from 36 years of population-based follow-up
Version:1Date:22 February 2014
Reviewer: PETER GILLETT
Reviewer's report:
i liked reading your paper- it adds to the international literature and makes
interesting comparison between countries and the obvious similarities and
differences in incidence and prevalence.
Just as a comment - you are to be congratulated in having such a robust national
database - this is something that we would aspire to, i have promoted for the last
10 years in scotland, and the finance and foresight is just totally lacking from the
powers that be !!
1. minor revisions - references 1, 10, 11, 25, 34 all need addressing
(Walker-Smith for example ref 11), the references have some other minor
mistakes- please check for capitalisation and appropriate abbreviation of journal
titles BMC, Scand J Gastroenterol, page numbers etc. Might be worthwhile taking
a few minutes just to make sure all others are ok - i think they are.
2. Discretionary revisions- several papers including ours from 2013 would look at
overall population of children looked at to give an alternative denominator - i
would be very keen to see you do this since you have captured all of the swedish
population cases since 1998 - this might allow you to inform the reader of cases
per 100 000 children's population which would make it easier for comparison with
papers from other groups.
Another thought - do you have any data relating to rate of caesarian section and
breastfeeding data that may allow some extrapolation from your reduced rates of
incidence in the younger groups particularly?? This may be published elsewhere
and if so, i apologise, but even then, it might be useful to include this in this paper
if you are able to.
Many thanks.
Best wishes
Peter Gillett
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:Celiac disease risk varies between birth cohorts, generating hypotheses
about causality: evidence from 36 years of population-based follow-up
Version:1Date:22 February 2014
Reviewer: PETER GILLETT
Reviewer's report:
i liked reading your paper- it adds to the international literature and makes
interesting comparison between countries and the obvious similarities and
differences in incidence and prevalence.
Just as a comment - you are to be congratulated in having such a robust national
database - this is something that we would aspire to, i have promoted for the last
10 years in scotland, and the finance and foresight is just totally lacking from the
powers that be !!
1. minor revisions - references 1, 10, 11, 25, 34 all need addressing
(Walker-Smith for example ref 11), the references have some other minor
mistakes- please check for capitalisation and appropriate abbreviation of journal
titles BMC, Scand J Gastroenterol, page numbers etc. Might be worthwhile taking
a few minutes just to make sure all others are ok - i think they are.
2. Discretionary revisions- several papers including ours from 2013 would look at
overall population of children looked at to give an alternative denominator - i
would be very keen to see you do this since you have captured all of the swedish
population cases since 1998 - this might allow you to inform the reader of cases
per 100 000 children's population which would make it easier for comparison with
papers from other groups.
Another thought - do you have any data relating to rate of caesarian section and
breastfeeding data that may allow some extrapolation from your reduced rates of
incidence in the younger groups particularly?? This may be published elsewhere
and if so, i apologise, but even then, it might be useful to include this in this paper
if you are able to.
Many thanks.
Best wishes
Peter Gillett
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.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Celiac disease risk varies between birth cohorts, generating hypotheses
about causality: evidence from 36 years of population-based follow-up
Version:1Date:22 February 2014
Reviewer: PETER GILLETT
Reviewer's report:
i liked reading your paper- it adds to the international literature and makes
interesting comparison between countries and the obvious similarities and
differences in incidence and prevalence.
Just as a comment - you are to be congratulated in having such a robust national
database - this is something that we would aspire to, i have promoted for the last
10 years in scotland, and the finance and foresight is just totally lacking from the
powers that be !!
1. minor revisions - references 1, 10, 11, 25, 34 all need addressing
(Walker-Smith for example ref 11), the references have some other minor
mistakes- please check for capitalisation and appropriate abbreviation of journal
titles BMC, Scand J Gastroenterol, page numbers etc. Might be worthwhile taking
a few minutes just to make sure all others are ok - i think they are.
2. Discretionary revisions- several papers including ours from 2013 would look at
overall population of children looked at to give an alternative denominator - i
would be very keen to see you do this since you have captured all of the swedish
population cases since 1998 - this might allow you to inform the reader of cases
per 100 000 children's population which would make it easier for comparison with
papers from other groups.
Another thought - do you have any data relating to rate of caesarian section and
breastfeeding data that may allow some extrapolation from your reduced rates of
incidence in the younger groups particularly?? This may be published elsewhere
and if so, i apologise, but even then, it might be useful to include this in this paper
if you are able to.
Many thanks.
Best wishes
Peter Gillett
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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