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In Response: Don’t Throw the Sodium Bicarbonate Out with the Correlation

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The original study was made possible, in part, by grant DA037317 (PI: Manini) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Shastry is supported by an institutional training grant, 1T32 HL129974-01 (PI: Richardson), from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Manini is currently supported by grant R01DA048009 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1620, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Siri Shastry, George Loo & Lynne D. Richardson

  2. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Judson Ellis

  3. Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    George Loo & Lynne D. Richardson

  4. Department of Population Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Rajesh Vedanthan

  5. Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

    Alex F. Manini

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Shastry, S., Ellis, J., Loo, G. et al. In Response: Don’t Throw the Sodium Bicarbonate Out with the Correlation. J. Med. Toxicol. 17, 319–320 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13181-021-00840-9

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