Skip Navigation


American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on October 16, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(11):1139-1140; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj360
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow On Line Supplement
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
164/11/1139    most recent
kwj360v1
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 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 Glymour, M. M.
Right arrow Articles by Weuve, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Glymour, M. M.
Right arrow Articles by Weuve, J.
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.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE FIRST TWO AUTHORS REPLY

M. Maria Glymour1,2 and Jennifer Weuve3

1 Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215
2 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032
3 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215

(e-mail: mglymour@hsph.harvard.edu)

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

We are grateful for Dr. Cologne's comments (1) on our paper (2). We agree that the implications of "baseline" adjustment depend on the timing of measurement of the baseline and its possible causal relations with other variables. In our paper on identifying determinants of change in a health outcome, we used the term "baseline" to refer to the first available measure of the health outcome of interest. In some studies, the earliest measure of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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