Effect of Birth Weight on Blood Pressure and Body Size in Early Adolescence

Hypertension

Volumn 43, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 203-207

  Falkner, Bonita ^a,d   Hulman, Sonia ^b   Kushner, Harvey ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Crozer Keystone Health System   (United States)

^c Biomedical Computer Research Institute   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0842289468     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000109322.72948.24     Document Type: Article

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