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FOUR AUTHORS REPLY
1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
2 Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0905
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We welcome this opportunity to respond to the comments of Drs. Harder and Plagemann (1) on our study (2). These authors argue that 1) adjustment for prepregnancy body mass index resulted in incorrect estimates of the association between maternal birth weight and risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH); and 2) we gave insufficient attention to the