TY - JOUR T1 - Author response: ‘Does cadmium exposure contribute to depressive symptoms in the elderly population?’ JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 355 LP - 356 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2016-103656 VL - 73 IS - 5 AU - Changwoo Han AU - Youn-Hee Lim AU - Yun-Chul Hong Y1 - 2016/05/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/73/5/355.2.abstract N2 - We thank Dr Tomoyuki Kawada1 for his interest in our manuscript entitled ‘Does cadmium exposure contribute to depressive symptoms in the elderly population?’2 In the letter, Dr Kawada depicted three possible reasons for the inconsistent results of our study: limited statistical power, use of blood cadmium as marker of cadmium exposure and the presence of other potential confounding variables.First, we agree with Dr Kawada's opinion on the limited statistical power of the study regarding the … ER -