Within pair association between birth weight and blood pressure at age 8 in twins from a cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 319, Issue 7221, 1999, Pages 1325-1329

  Dwyer, Terence ^a   Blizzard, Leigh ^a   Morley, Ruth ^b   Ponsonby, Anne Louise ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0033589678     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1325     Document Type: Article

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