We thank Dr. Kao et al for their comments on our article and appreciate the opportunity to address these potential concerns about bias and confounding. In doing so, we will highlight the strengths of our study design that allow us to be confident in our findings on the association between lifestyle behaviors and SLE risk (1).

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我们感谢高博士等人对我们文章的评论，并感谢有机会解决这些关于偏见和混杂的潜在担忧。在此过程中，我们将强调我们研究设计的优势，这些优势使我们对我们关于生活方式行为与 SLE 风险之间关联的研究结果充满信心 (1)。