Prospective Study of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes and Risk of Stroke Subtypes: the Nurses’ Health Study
Response to Tuttolomondo et al.
- Mohsen Janghorbani, PHD12,
- Kathryne M. Rexrode, MD34 and
- Giancarlo Logroscino, MD5
- 1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
- 2Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- 3Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- 4Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- 5Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Masschusetts
- Address correspondence to Mohsen Janghorbani, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: janghorbani{at}yahoo.com
We thank Tuttolomondo et al. (1) for their interest in our study (2). In response, we would like to clarify several points. First, coding of strokes has been ongoing in the Nurses’ Health Study since 1976. We have not had funding to implement coding by TOAST (Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment) classification (3) but hope to do so in the future. In an internal comparison of coding …
