American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 166(4):490-491; doi:10.1093/aje/kwm199
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1 Longitudinal Studies Unit, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
2 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, United Kingdom
3 Child Development and Rehabilitation Services, Mater Children's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia
4 School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
(e-mail: mamun@sph.uq.edu.au)
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We appreciate Dr. Ansari's observations (1). Dr. Ansari appears to question whether we demonstrated in our study (2) that smoking during pregnancy is causally related to later adiposity in offspring. We tried to examine