RE: “WHY EVIDENCE FOR THE FETAL ORIGINS OF ADULT DISEASE MIGHT BE A STATISTICAL ARTIFACT: THE ‘REVERSAL PARADOX’ FOR THE RELATION BETWEEN BIRTH WEIGHT AND BLOOD PRESSURE IN LATER LIFE”
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- 15 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 162 (4) , 394-395
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwi231
Abstract
In a recent Journal article, Tu et al. (1) showed how adjustment for current weight tends to increase the inverse association between birth weight and blood pressure. They assumed that current weight is positively correlated with blood pressure and birth weight, and that birth weight and blood pressure are only weakly correlated. They tested the effect of adjustment by simulating different correlation scenarios.Keywords
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