Fetal Growth and Early Postnatal Growth Are Related to Blood Pressure in Adults
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hypertension
- Vol. 36 (5) , 795-800
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.36.5.795
Abstract
—It is commonly agreed that birth weight is associated with blood pressure in adults. However, not much is known about birth length, ponderal index, and early postnatal growth, whose effect...Keywords
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