Birth weight of offspring and insulin resistance in late adulthood: cross sectional survey

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7363.527/a

Correction for Lawlor et al., BMJ 325 (7360) 359.
BMJ 2002;325:527 ( 7 September )

Correction

Birth weight of offspring and insulin resistance in late adulthood: cross sectional survey

The authors of this paper, Debbie A Lawlor and colleagues (17 August, pp 359-62), have alerted us to an error in the resultssection. The first sentence of the fourth paragraph should read:"The odds of maternal insulin resistance (top quarter of HOMAscore [not "birth weight"] compared with lowest three quarters[not "all other participants"], adjusted by age) decreased withincreasing birth weight of offspring (odds ratio 0.85; 95% confidenceinterval 0.71 to 1.00)." The HOMA score is the homoeostasis modelassessmentscore.