American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on June 2, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(2):126-127; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj195
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Response to Invited Commentary |
Hardy et al. Respond to "Beyond Frequencies and Coefficients"
1 Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
2 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Correspondence to Dr. Diana Kuh, Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Gower Street Campus, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom (e-mail: d.kuh@nshd.mrc.ac.uk).
Received for publication March 15, 2006. Accepted for publication March 20, 2006.
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The invited commentary by Wang (1
) on our paper on the developmental origins of midlife physical performance (2
) is a critical appraisal of prevailing epidemiologic approaches to life course analyses rather than the substantive findings of our study.
We share many of the interests and concerns raised by the commentary. Epidemiologists share an interest with researchers from many other disciplines in investigating the critical and cumulative (3
) effects of childhood developmental factors on