ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health1999
An inverse relation between blood pressure and birth weight among 5 year old children from Soweto, South Africa.
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- Evidence of an overweight/obesity transition among school-aged children and youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.PloS one · 2014Pooled it
- What is the effect of adjusting for more than one measure of current body size on the relation between birthweight and blood pressure?Journal of human hypertension · 2006Pooled it
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- Maternal high-fat diet promotes body length increases and insulin insensitivity in second-generation mice.Endocrinology · 2009Article
- Blood pressure levels in childhood: probing the relative importance of birth weight and current size.European journal of pediatrics · 2009Article
- Non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: context, determinants and health policy.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2008Review
- Modeling the variability of shapes of a human placenta.Placenta · 2008Article
- Trends in body mass index, blood pressure and parental smoking habits in middle socio-economic level Turkish adolescents.Journal of human hypertension · 2008Article
- Developmental programming of the metabolic syndrome by maternal nutritional imbalance: how strong is the evidence from experimental models in mammals?The Journal of physiology · 2004Review
- The effects of birth weight and postnatal linear growth retardation on blood pressure at age 11-12 years.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2001Article
- Importance of family history in type 2 black South African diabetic patients.Postgraduate medical journal · 2001Article
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Abstract
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objectiveTo examine the relation between birth weight and blood pressure at 5 years in a cohort of South African children.
designProspective cohort study.
participants849 five year old children.
settingSoweto, a sprawling urban area close to Johannesburg, South Africa, which was a designated residential area for people classified as "black" under apartheid legislation. MAIN
resultsSystolic blood pressure at 5 years was inversely related to birthweight (r = -0.05, p = 0.0007), independent of current weight, height, gestational age, maternal age or socioeconomic status at 5 years. There was no relation between birth weight and diastolic blood pressure. After adjusting for current weight and height, there was a mean decline in systolic blood pressure of 3.4 mm Hg (95% confidence intervals 1.4, 5.3 mm Hg) for every 1000 g increase in birth weight.
conclusionsThese data from a disadvantaged urbanised community in Southern Africa extend the reported observations of an inverse relation between birth weight and systolic blood pressure. The study adds to the evidence that influences in fetal life and early childhood influence systolic blood pressure. Further research is required to assess whether efforts to reduce the incidence of low birthweight babies will attenuate the prevalence of hypertension in future generations.
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