key: cord-0755379-yowp3jzu
authors: Anto, Josep M.; Bousquet, Jean
title: Reply to “Cabbage and COVID‐19”
date: 2021-03-06
journal: Allergy
DOI: 10.1111/all.14653
sha: ba3b36f9283d15c9e005346f31ea41e11e74e49f
doc_id: 755379
cord_uid: yowp3jzu

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To the Editor,

We appreciate the interest and comments of Soriano and Ancochea 1 regarding our papers. 2 Further to the suggestion that "it would be of interest to repeat their statistics conducted during the first wave of COVID-19, again with the current estimates during the ongoing second wave, or later ones," we would like to emphasize that our geographical observation was a type of anecdotal evidence that contributed to formulating a hypothesis. In a previous paper, we found that after adjusting for potentially relevant country-level confounders, there was a negative ecological association between COVID-19 mortality and the consumption of cabbage and cucumber in European countries. 3 In this study, we acknowledged that "As in any ecological study, any inference from the observed association 

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