Retraction: "A Case-Cohort Study of Cadmium Body Burden and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in American Women".

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Vol. 125, No. 4 RetractionOpen AccessRetraction: “A Case-Cohort Study of Cadmium Body Burden and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in American Women”is retraction ofRetracted: A Case-Cohort Study of Cadmium Body Burden and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in American Women Megan E. Romano, Daniel A. Enquobahrie, Christopher D. Simpson, Harvey Checkoway, and Michelle A. Williams Megan E. Romano Search for more papers by this author , Daniel A. Enquobahrie Search for more papers by this author , Christopher D. Simpson Search for more papers by this author , Harvey Checkoway Search for more papers by this author , and Michelle A. Williams Search for more papers by this author Published:1 April 2017https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1818Cited by:1AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit Environ Health Perspect 123(10):993–998 (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408282This article is being retracted at the request of the authors because of inadvertent errors in the statistical code that resulted in the exclusion of 12 gestational diabetes mellitus cases with urinary cadmium below the limit of detection. The coding errors do not impact any other published studies of this population.In Table 1, the corrected geometric mean for the gestational diabetes mellitus cases was 0.33 μg/g Cr [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.30, 0.37].In Table 2, the magnitude of the effect estimates reported was attenuated and the p-trend was no longer statistically significant, such that the odds ratios for gestational diabetes mellitus with increasing urinary cadmium tertile were 1.12 (95% CI: 0.64, 1.98) for middle versus low tertile and 1.34 (95% CI: 0.78, 2.29) for high versus low tertile; p-trend = 0.28.The magnitude of the effect estimates reported in Table 3 and the effect estimates for additional sensitivity analyses reported in the original manuscript were also generally attenuated.The authors regret any inconvenience to the scientific community.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by Romano M, Gallagher L, Jackson B, Baker E and Karagas M (2019) Maternal urinary cadmium, glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study, Environmental Research, 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108733, 179, (108733), Online publication date: 1-Dec-2019. Related articlesRetracted: A Case-Cohort Study of Cadmium Body Burden and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in American Women24 February 2015Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 125, No. 4 April 2017Metrics About Article Metrics Publication History Originally published31 March 2017Published in print1 April 2017 Financial disclosuresPDF download License information EHP is an open-access journal published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. All content is public domain unless otherwise noted. Note to readers with disabilities EHP strives to ensure that all journal content is accessible to all readers. However, some figures and Supplemental Material published in EHP articles may not conform to 508 standards due to the complexity of the information being presented. If you need assistance accessing journal content, please contact [email protected]. Our staff will work with you to assess and meet your accessibility needs within 3 working days.