Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158:191.
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Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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1 Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
2 Department of Pediatrics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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We thank Hughes et al. (1) for their interest in our study (2), but we do not think their concerns affect the reliability of our results.
The first study (3) was performed at a secondary-level hospital with less research activity, whereas the