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Response to letters to the editor regarding our paper “Early introduction of complementary foods and childhood overweight in breastfed and formula-fed infants in the Netherlands: the PIAMA birth cohort study”

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  1. Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, STR 6.131, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Linda P. M. Pluymen, Henriëtte A. Smit & Lenie van Rossem

  2. Center for Nutrition, Prevention, and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

    Alet H. Wijga

  3. Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ulrike Gehring

  4. Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, UMCG, GRIAC Research Institute, Groningen, University of Groningen, Beatrix Children’s Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerard H. Koppelman

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Linda Pluymen, Alet Wijga, Ulrike Gehring, Gerard Koppelman, Henriëtte Smit, Lenie van Rossem. On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

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Pluymen, L.P.M., Wijga, A.H., Gehring, U. et al. Response to letters to the editor regarding our paper “Early introduction of complementary foods and childhood overweight in breastfed and formula-fed infants in the Netherlands: the PIAMA birth cohort study”. Eur J Nutr 57, 1999–2000 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1701-6

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