Reviewer’s report
Title: 
The Association of Osteoporosis Knowledge and Beliefs with Preventive
Behaviors in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors
Version: 
0 
Date: 
14 May 2021
Reviewer's report:
On p4, line 45-, "This cross-sectional study was part of an ongoing longitudinal
study investigating the relationship between breast cancer and diabetes beliefs
among older breast cancer survivors." It would seem that beliefs about diabetes
may affect the beliefs about other pathologies. 
Did your study include a random
selection of those with different beliefs about diabetes or were they selected to
include those with particular beliefs?
The numbers of subjects are too small to distinguish among women, for
example, who are on AI and those who are not. 
In fact, the numbers of subjects
are too limiting to distinguish among many of the variables of interest. 
On p8, lines 53-58, it is not clear what the comparisons are. 
There are 4 values
but one p-value. 
Were averages obtained within, e.g. white women and other vs
Black and Latino? 
Line 4, p5 Vitamin supplement use was from review of hospital records. 
This
does not seem to be a good estimate over time.
Line 12, p6, The statement is made that "We also constructed a 7-item
questionnaire to capture engagement in osteoporosis preventive behaviors such
as dietary intake of calcium-containing foods and weight-bearing exercise. This
questionnaire should be described and the validity testing described.
In several places a calcium-fortified beverage is referred to. A more complete
description is needed. 
Table 2. There are 14 adherent and 16 nonadherent subjects. 
The percentages do
not conform to the numbers of subjects. For example, there were 6 married
adherent subjects. 
The percentage is listed as 86%. 
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