Erratum: A complex intervention to improve pregnancy outcome in obese women; the UPBEAT randomised controlled trial Annette L Briley1, Suzanne Barr2, Shirlene Badger1, Ruth Bell3, Helen Croker4, Keith M Godfrey56, Bridget Holmes2, Tarja I Kinnunen3, Scott M Nelson7, Eugene Oteng-Ntim1, Nashita Patel1, Stephen C Robson8, Jane Sandall1, Thomas Sanders2, Naveed Sattar7, Paul T Seed1, Jane Wardle4 and Lucilla Poston1* Corresponding author: Lucilla Poston
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Division of Women’s Health, Women’s Health Academic Centre, King’s College London and King’s Health Partners, 10th floor, North Wing, St.Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK 2
Division of Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, King’s College London and King’s Health Partners, London, UK 3
Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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MRC LifeCourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Nutrition, Diet and Lifestyle, University of Southampton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK 7
Centre for Population and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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Erratum After publication of the original article [1] it came to the publishers attention that pre-existing diabetes had been omitted from the exclusion criteria in the manuscript. The paragraph on page 4 should read: Exclusion criteria Women unable or unwilling to give informed consent; 18+6 weeks' gestation; essential hypertension requiring treatment either pre-pregnancy or in index pregnancy; pre-existing diabetes (Type 1 or Type 2); pre-existing renal disease; systemic lupus erythematosus; antiphospholipid syndrome; sickle cell disease; thalassemia; coeliac disease; thyroid disease; current psychosis; multiple pregnancy; currently prescribed metformin.
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References 1. Briley AL, Barr S, Badger S, Bell R, Croker H, Godfrey KM, Holmes B, Kinnunen TI, Nelson SM, Oteng-Ntim E, Patel N, Robson SC, Sandall J, Sanders T, Sattar N, Seed PT, Wardle J, Poston L. A complex intervention to improve pregnancy outcome in obese women; the UPBEAT randomised controlled trial. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014, 14:74
