Does malnutrition in utero determine diabetes and coronary heart disease in adulthood? Results from the Leningrad siege study, a cross sectional study

BMJ

Volumn 315, Issue 7119, 1997, Pages 1342-1348

  Stanner, S A ^a   Bulmer, K ^a   Andres C ^a   Lantseva, O E ^b   Borodina, V ^b   Poteen, V V ^a   Yudkin, J S ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b D O OTT RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LIPID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHORT STATURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STARVATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; URINARY EXCRETION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA;

EID: 0030704615     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7119.1342     Document Type: Article

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