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We thank participants of the ATBC Study cohort for their contributions to this research.

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The ATBC Study is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. J.H. was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82100949), the Outstanding Young Investigator Award of Hunan Province (2022JJ10094), and the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province (2020RC4044). The funders had no role in the design and conduct this present study.

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  1. National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, Key Laboratory of Diabetes Immunology, Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Ministry of Education, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, 410011, Changsha, Hunan, China

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  2. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

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Zhao, B., Albanes, D. & Huang, J. Authors’ Reply: Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis. Eur J Epidemiol 37, 1287–1291 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-022-00943-9

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