Author's response to reviews Title: Pre-pregnancy predictors of hypertension in pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in North Queensland, Australia: a prospective cohort study. Authors:
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In the background, does the term indigenous refer to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Yes. There are two Indigenous groups in Australia. Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal Australians are ethnically, culturally and historically distinct groups. The traditional lands of Torres Strait Islanders are limited to the islands and waters of the Torres Strait between the northern most tip of Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Please remove the phrase ‘potentially amenable to intervention before pregnancy’ from the abstract. The phrase has been removed. It is unclear what the work ‘linked’ means in the methods. Also, it is not known what and/or who the two population of data represent. Were all the women in the ‘hospitalisations data’ indigenous; were all the women in the ‘perinatal data’ non-Indigenous: Did all the women included in the study become pregnant: the term childbearing age is ambiguous. The methods section of the Abstract has been amended to enhance clarity (below).
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Pre-pregnancy predictors of hypertension in pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in north Queensland, Australia; a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND Compared to other Australian women, Indigenous women are frequently at greater risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. We examined pre-pregnancy factors that may predict hypertension in pregnancy in a cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in north Queensland. METHODS Data on a cohort of 1009 Indigenous women of childbearing age (15-44 years) who participated i...
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