Response to Comment on: Lin et al. Long-Term Changes in Adiposity and Glycemic Control Are Associated With Past Adenovirus Infection. Diabetes Care 2013;36:701–707

We would like to thank Yamada et al. (1) for their comments about our article (2) and for their interest in our work. They state that the association of Ad36 infection with better glycemic control that we reported does not correspond with their previous meta-analysis (3). Although there may be a number of possibilities to explain the difference, it should be noted that the meta-analysis by Yamada et al. (3) included 2,870 subjects for BMI analyses but only 1,083 subjects for determining the association of Ad36 with glucose levels. However, data are now available for additional 3,037 subjects that show an association of various components of glycemic control with Ad36 seropositivity in humans. These additional data are …