American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on July 1, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 170(4):530-531; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp190
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TWO AUTHORS REPLY
Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of "Experimental Obstetrics," Charité—University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin 13353, Germany
(e-mail: andreas.plagemann@charite.de)
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We are grateful to Dr. Cardwell and Dr. Patterson (1) for their interest in our work (2) and would like to reply to their 3 major points of concern.
First, Cardwell and Patterson claim that our meta-analysis on birth weight and later risk of type 1 diabetes contains only a small portion of relevant studies. To support their concerns, they name 11 studies (3–13) that were not included but