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我们感谢Yasumaet al. for their valuable comments on our paper that describes the association between individual-level long-term concentrations of air pollutants at the residential addresses of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and mortality among them [1]. We agree with Yasumaet al. that the release of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) or particulate matter in cigarette smoke is one of the considerations in interpreting our results. Thus, we stratified all patients into ever- and non-smokers according to their smoking status and analysed the effect of air pollutants on mortality risk in these patients using our health analysis models that included different sets of confounders (figure 1).
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Conflict of interest: Dr. Yoon has nothing to disclose.
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Conflict of interest: Dr. Song has nothing to disclose.
- ReceivedJune 19, 2021.
- AcceptedJuly 20, 2021.
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