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¹ Professor in Women's Mental Health, Section of Women's Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and Women's Health Academic Centre, King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK Email: louise.howard@kcl.ac.uk.
² Lecturer, Section of Women's Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
³ post-doctoral statistician, Biostatistics and Health Informatics Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁴ Professor of Statistics, Biostatistics and Health Informatics Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.

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Louise M Howard et al. Br J Psychiatry. 2019 Feb.

. 2019 Feb;214(2):117.

doi: 10.1192/bjp.2018.283.

¹ Professor in Women's Mental Health, Section of Women's Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and Women's Health Academic Centre, King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK Email: louise.howard@kcl.ac.uk.
² Lecturer, Section of Women's Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
³ post-doctoral statistician, Biostatistics and Health Informatics Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁴ Professor of Statistics, Biostatistics and Health Informatics Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.

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