ArticleDiabetologia2006
The associations of birthweight, gestational age and childhood BMI with type 2 diabetes: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort.
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- Former Very Preterm Infants Show an Unfavorable Cardiovascular Risk Profile at a Preschool Age.PloS one · 2016Article
- Cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults who were born preterm.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
- Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes in the black women's health study: does adult BMI play a mediating role?Diabetes care · 2014Article
- An association of adult personality with prenatal and early postnatal growth: the EPQ lie-scale.BMC psychology · 2014Article
- Preschool weight and body mass index in relation to central obesity and metabolic syndrome in adulthood.PloS one · 2014Article
- Persistence of the effect of birth size on dysglycaemia and type 2 diabetes in old age: AGES-Reykjavik Study.Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2013Article
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Abstract
aims/hypothesisThe aim of this study was to examine the associations of birthweight, gestational age and childhood BMI (assessed at a mean age of 5 years) with a self-report of a doctor diagnosis of diabetes in middle age.
methodsWe studied a birth cohort of 5,793 individuals who were born between 1950 and 1956 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and who responded to a questionnaire administered in 2000.
resultsBirthweight and gestational age were inversely associated with diabetes. These associations remained with additional adjustment for indicators of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, maternal complications of pregnancy, adult smoking, adult BMI and simultaneous adjustment for each other: the adjusted odds ratio per unit increase in birthweight z score was 0.73 (95% CI 0.60-0.88), the odds ratio per week increase in gestational age was 0.91 (95% CI 0.82-1.00) and odds ratio for preterm birth was 2.04 (94% CI 1.18-3.53). The positive association of childhood BMI with diabetes was attenuated on adjustment for adult BMI. CONCLUSIONS/
interpretationIn this population, who were born in the 1950s, poor intrauterine growth and preterm birth are associated with an increased risk of diabetes.
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