title: Reply to letter to the editor: "MEASURES OF OBESITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK AMONG MEN AND WOMEN"
authors.affiliation: Divisions of Aging (RPG, JMG, JEB, TK), Preventive Medicine (JEB, JEM, JMG, TK), and General Medicine and Primary Care (EJO), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medial School; Departments of Epidemiology (TK, JEM, JEB) and Biostatistics (EJO), Harvard School of Public Health; Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (JMG), VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School; Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (JEB), Harvard Medical School; and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (RPG); all in Boston MA.
authors.forename: Rebecca P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Gelber
authors.forename: J Michael
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gaziano
authors.forename: E John
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Orav
authors.forename: Joann E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Manson
authors.forename: Julie E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Buring
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurth