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Reply to Greenland: A serious misinterpretation of a consistent inverse association of statin use with glioma across 3 case–control studies

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  1. Wilhelm Sander-NeuroOncology Unit, Department of Neurology, Regensburg University Hospital, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Corinna Seliger, Ulrich Bogdahn & Peter Hau

  2. Basel Pharmacoepidemiology Unit, Division of Clinical Pharmacy and Epidemiology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Christoph R. Meier & Claudia Becker

  3. Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    Christoph R. Meier & Susan S. Jick

  4. Hospital Pharmacy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Christoph R. Meier

  5. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Michael F. Leitzmann

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Seliger, C., Meier, C.R., Becker, C. et al. Reply to Greenland: A serious misinterpretation of a consistent inverse association of statin use with glioma across 3 case–control studies. Eur J Epidemiol 32, 89–90 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-016-0212-0

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