Thank you to Hossain et al 1 for your commentary on our article,2 which indeed raises important points.

For what concerns your first comment, we agree that the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) offers comprehensive guidance to conduct an umbrella review. However, there is a very large number of umbrella reviews published following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, and several papers that indicate that this is the appropriate method to conduct this type of review.3 4 Also, we argue that following the JBI guidelines would have not led to fundamentally different results from …