Author’s response to reviews Title: An Association of Spleen Volume and Aortic Diameter in Patients and in Mice with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Authors:
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My only reservation has to do with the control group in the clinical arm of the study. As the authors point out, patients in the control group were significantly younger than in the study group. Furthermore, no data were collected regarding height/weight, and the spleen volumes were not indexed. Could the authors comment on how they selected the 25 controls for this study? Why did they only choose 25 patients? The 50-80 age frame seems quite wide and certainly insufficient to consider the two groups comparable.
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