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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on September 17, 2007
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2007. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Pesonen et al. Respond to "The Life Course Epidemiology of Depression"

A-K. Pesonen1, K. Räikkönen1, K. Heinonen1, E. Kajantie2, T. Forsén2 and J. G. Eriksson3

1 Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
2 National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
3 Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Correspondence to Dr. Katri Räikkönen, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, Siltavuorenpenger 20 R, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland (e-mail: katri.raikkonen@helsinki.fi).

Received for publication July 10, 2007. Accepted for publication August 13, 2007.

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In his insightful commentary on our recent publication (1), Gilman (2) mentions three potential challenges with implications for life-course research.

First, confounders related to unobserved factors are of major importance in all scientific research. Exceptional conditions, such as in Finland during World War II, are comparable to major environmental disasters. They are particularly significant to natural experimental designs because potential confounders are assumed to be randomly distributed across the groups . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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