Childhood Growth and Hypertension in Later Life
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Childhood growth and hypertension in later life.
Few studies have examined the effects of both prenatal and postnatal growth on hypertension. We report on hypertension in 2003 people aged 62 years who were randomly selected from the Helsinki birth cohort and examined in a clinic. Their heights and weights had been recorded serially up to age 11 years. A total of 644 had already been diagnosed with hypertension. Compared with normotensive peop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.106.085597