ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1994
Relation between birth weight at term and systolic blood pressure in adolescence.
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- Twins and maternal smoking: ordeals for the fetal origins hypothesis? A cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Article
- Advances in endocrinology.Archives of disease in childhood · 1998Review
- Factors associated with birth weight in Sweden: the study of men born in 1913.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1997Article
- Body size and subcutaneous fat patterning in adolescence.Archives of disease in childhood · 1996Article
- Placental weight, birth measurements, and blood pressure at age 8 years.Archives of disease in childhood · 1996Article
- Birth weight and blood pressure: cross sectional and longitudinal relations in childhood.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1995Article
- Birth weight at term and lung function in adolescence: no evidence for a programmed effect.Archives of disease in childhood · 1995Article
- Fetal origins of adult hypertension.Sozial- und Praventivmedizin · 1995Article
- Birth weight and blood pressure in adolescence. Studies may be misleading.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1994Article
- Birth weight and blood pressure in adolescence. Findings could be influenced by stage of puberty.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1994Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether birth weight is related to systolic blood pressure during adolescence.
designRetrospective (comparative) cohort study. The observers who traced and studied the subjects were unaware of their case-control status. SUBJECTS: 330 subjects were born in Cardiff in 1975-7. Cases who were low birth weight at term (< 2500 g) were matched with controls of normal birth weight (3000-3800 g) at term.
main outcome measuresSystolic blood pressure measured by random zero sphygmomanometry in the subject's right arm with the subject supine, corrected for size and age.
resultsThe mean age at examination was 15.7 years. The mean systolic blood pressure of the cases was 105.8 mm Hg and of the controls 107.5 mm Hg. The corrected difference (95% confidence interval) in systolic blood pressure between the cases and controls was 1 mm Hg (-3 to +1 mm Hg; two tailed probability 0.33).
conclusionSystolic blood pressure in adolescents of low birth weight is not significantly different from that of adolescents of normal birth weights.
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