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LETTERS: Gillian Hawthorne, Lorentz M Irgens, Rolv T Lie, Narve Moe, and Jak Jervell Retraction of paper on maternal diabetes BMJ 2003; 327: 929 [Full text]

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Concerning retraction of paper on maternal diabetes

Lorentz M Irgens, Rolv T. Lie   (22 October 2003)

Concerning retraction of paper on maternal diabetes 22 October 2003
Lorentz M Irgens, Director, Professor PhD Medical Birth Registry of Norway and University of Bergen, N-5018 Bergen, Norway, Rolv T. Lie Send response to journal: Re: Concerning retraction of paper on maternal diabetes	Editor. In a recent letter (1), the BMJ made a mistake when the data were retyped for publication: the Northeast England cohort without maternal diabetes comprised 101 516 mothers, not 181 132. Please also note that Professor Moe is affiliated with Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National Hospital, Oslo while we are affiliated with the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Bergen. Yours sincerely, Lorentz M Irgens and Rolv Terje Lie. 1. Hawthorne G, Irgens LM, Lie RT, Moe N, Jervell J. Retraction of paper on maternal diabetes: BMJ 2003; 327: 929. Competing interests: None declared