Skip Navigation


American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 24, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(11):1124-1125; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj277
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
164/11/1124    most recent
kwj277v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Related articles in Am. J. Epidemiol.
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hernández-Díaz, S.
Right arrow Articles by Hernán, M. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Hernández-Díaz, S.
Right arrow Articles by Hernán, M. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Response to Invited Commentary

Hernández-Díaz et al. Respond to "The Perils of Birth Weight"

Sonia Hernández-Díaz1,2, Enrique F. Schisterman3 and Miguel A. Hernán1

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2 Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
3 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD

Correspondence to Dr. Sonia Hernández-Díaz, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: shernan@hsph.harvard.edu).

Received for publication May 4, 2006. Accepted for publication May 8, 2006.

Abbreviations: DAG, directed acyclic graph

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In his commentary (1), Dr. Allen Wilcox is interested in two distinct though related questions: 1) do we have to adjust for birth weight when evaluating the effect of prenatal risk factors on infant mortality? and 2) is low birth weight a cause of infant mortality?

In our paper (. . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?

Related articles in Am. J. Epidemiol.:

The Birth Weight "Paradox" Uncovered?
Sonia Hernández-Díaz, Enrique F. Schisterman, and Miguel A. Hernán
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2006 164: 1115-1120. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text]