American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on June 29, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(3):292; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi196
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
RE: "WHY EVIDENCE FOR THE FETAL ORIGINS OF ADULT DISEASE MIGHT BE A STATISTICAL ARTIFACT: THE REVERSAL PARADOX FOR THE RELATION BETWEEN BIRTH WEIGHT AND BLOOD PRESSURE IN LATER LIFE"
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215
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Regarding the interchange between Tu et al. and Weinberg (1
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) about the "fetal origins" hypothesis, I fear that both sets of authors come