Reply to KC McCowen, PR Ling, and BR Bistrian

Medical Department of Gastroenterology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, E-mail: bekker{at}dadlnet.dk

Dear Sir:

We wish to thank McCowen et al for their interest in our article and for addressing an intriguing hypothesis. We agree that it would be interesting to attempt to consider patients with Crohn disease, stratified for extent of malabsorption, separately from other patients with fat malabsorption in terms of the concentration of the eicosanoid precursors arachidonic and eicosapentaenoic acids. However, the small number of patients investigated in this study would not allow such a stratification.