American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on March 14, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 167(7):797-798; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn038
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Hutcheon and Platt Respond to "The Hidden Population in Perinatal Epidemiology"
1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2 Department of Pediatrics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Correspondence to Jennifer A. Hutcheon, The Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute, 4060 Rue Sainte Catherine Ouest #205, Westmount, Quebec, Canada, H3Z 2Z3 (e-mail: jennifer.hutcheon@mail.mcgill.ca).
Received for publication January 28, 2008. Accepted for publication February 4, 2008.
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We thank Dr. Paneth for his insightful comments (1) and, in particular, the way in which he has located our work on fetal growth (2) in the context of the larger body of work on fetuses at risk. We would like to respond to some of the concerns raised regarding the measurement of intrauterine growth, as well as touch briefly on the larger issue of selecting denominators in perinatal epidemiology.
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