Reduced fetal growth rate and increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease: Cohort study of 15,000 Swedish men and women born 1915-29

British Medical Journal

Volumn 317, Issue 7153, 1998, Pages 241-245

  Leon, David A ^a   Lithell, Hans O ^b   Vågerö, Denny ^c   Koupilová, Ilona ^a   Mohsen, Rawya ^b   Berglund, Lars ^b   Lithell, Ulla Britt ^b   McKeigue, Paul M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0032566198     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.317.7153.241     Document Type: Article

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