Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:666.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
THE AUTHORS REPLY
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In their letter, Rich-Edwards et al. (1) say that we misinterpreted our estimate for birth weight. They are right in stating that the parameter was 0.96 mmHg (95 percent confidence interval: 1.38, 0,54) for a 1 kg increase in birth weight (2). However, because the model included both later weight and birth weight, the effect