Letter to the Editor (July 28, 2017) concerning the paper “Mortality for chronic-degenerative diseases in Tuscany: Ecological study comparing neighboring areas with substantial difference in environmental pollution”

Authors’ response (August 21, 2017) to the letter to the Editor concerning the paper “Mortality for chronic-degenerative diseases in Tuscany: Ecological study comparing neighboring areas with substantial difference in environmental pollution”

“…Dear Editor, Judging by their first comment, Colleagues from the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute (Istituto per lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica -ISPO) are likely to misinterpret the design of our study "Mortality for chronic-degenerative diseases in Tuscany: Ecological study comparing neighboring areas with substantial differences in environmental pollution" [1,2]. One of our aim actually was "to investigate the potential links between the possible excess in mortality rates and environmental release and detection of pollutants."…”