1. Effect of Birth Weight on Blood Pressure and Body Size in Early Adolescence
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Sonia Hulman, Harvey Kushner, and Bonita Falkner
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Longitudinal study ,Pediatrics ,Adolescent ,Birth weight ,Blood Pressure ,Internal Medicine ,medicine ,Birth Weight ,Humans ,Longitudinal Studies ,Prospective Studies ,Child ,Prospective cohort study ,Obstetrics ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Gestational age ,Anthropometry ,Low birth weight ,Blood pressure ,Body Constitution ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Body mass index - Abstract
The fetal programming theory that birth weight contributes to blood pressure or body size in later life is examined in this study. A prospective longitudinal study was conducted on subjects who were examined as newborns and prospectively interviewed and re-examined at 11 to 14 years old. Low birth weight (r =0.19, P
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- 2004
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