Authors’ reply to Quigley

We acknowledge the concerns raised by Quigley, in her role as chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance,1 regarding our paper.2 This was written as a scientific paper with findings primarily aimed at other researchers and health professionals. It uses existing studies with historical data from women over decades to advance evidence on their risk of stroke.The term “patient,” as used in the title and elsewhere, refers to “patient data,” such as from hospital records. The point is to establish the specific source of the medical data and their accuracy, as distinct from using a survey with self-reporting stroke events. Otherwise we refer to those in the study as participants (for example, “to thank the participants [in the studies]”) or as women (such as “women who experienced infertility, miscarriage, and stillbirth”).In presenting results that identified a new association with the risk of stroke, we need to account for other established risk…
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