Reviewer’ s report
Title: Type D personality and metabolic syndrome among Finnish female municipal workers
Version: 0Date: 26 Jan 2020
Reviewer: Hamidreza Roohafza
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This manuscript is about the relation of type D personality and metabolic syndrome among
Finnish female municipal workers. The manuscript was very fluent and well-written. Here aresome comments that would be better to be considered.
At the beginning of Method section, authors have stated that 836 employees among 2570
employees tended to participate in the study. Were participants' characteristics representative ofother employees' characteristics who didn't participate in the study? On the other words, didresearchers know the other employees' characteristics who didn't participate in the study?
However, the major concern about this manuscript is that the study sample was not representative
of all study population that showed any relationship between type D personality and metabolicsyndrome. On the other side, it is stated that three studies had noteworthy consistency with theresults of this manuscript. But, one of them showed the relation of type D and all-cause mortality(Grande et al, 2011). The other one studied heart failure (HF) patients who most of them hadNYHA class II and III (Coyone et al. 2011). There are evidences that in these patients (HF),cardiac factors that lead mortality are very high and the third study was merely a letter to editor(De voodg et al. 2012)In my opinion, in Conclusion section should be stated that according to limitations, we couldn'tfind accurately relationship.
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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NoDoes the work include the necessary controls?
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Yes
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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