It was recently brought to my attention that one paragraph in my editorial, when read out of context, might be misconstrued as suggesting that Prof. Burney and Dr. Hooper have racist views. Such an interpretation is quite wrong, and any such implication firmly denied. I request that one sentence in my editorial be modified as follows:
For example, in a study of differences in mortality between African and European Americans, Burney and Hooper [12] concluded that the higher mortality in African Americans could be explained by their lower forced VC alone.
Philip H. Quanjer
- ©ERS 2013