Reply to: “Interaction analysis is needed to reveal the effects of socioeconomic status on the association between diet quality and lipidemic profile”

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We would like to thank Dr Bueno for his comments on our work, as well as his interest in the accuracy of the results published [1], which is also our primary goal. In our initial analysis, all the covariates were selected based on the existing literature [2,3]. Nevertheless, we tested SES as a possible confounder, as well as its possible interaction with Healthy Diet Score (HDS), both of which confirmed that it was more informative not to include SES as a confounder but to present our findings stratified by SES.