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American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 166(1):17-18; doi:10.1093/aje/kwm095
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2007 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Response to Invited Commentary

Terry et al. Respond to "Antecedents of Obesity"

Mary Beth Terry1, Ying Wei2 and Denise Esserman2,3,4

1 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
2 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
3 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
4 School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Correspondence to Dr. Mary Beth Terry, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, Room 724 A, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: mt146@columbia.edu).

Received for publication February 5, 2007. Accepted for publication February 21, 2007.

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   INTRODUCTION
 
The commentary by Drs. Gillman and Kleinman (1) on our paper examining pre- and postnatal predictors of adult body mass index (BMI) (2) highlights the analytic and design challenges of conducting these types of investigations.


   Choice of model
 
We agree with Gillman and Kleinman that employing a variety of analytic approaches illuminates the sensitivity of findings to model specification. We compared standard analytic approaches . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Exposure construct
 

   Model-building
 

   Design challenges
 

   Data inference
 

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