Association between size at birth, truncal fat and obesity in adult life and its contribution to blood pressure and coronary heart disease; study in a high birth weight population

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 812-818

  Gunnarsdottir, I ^a,b   Birgisdottir, B E ^a,b   Benediktsson, R ^a,b,c   Gudnason, V ^a,b   Thorsdottir, I ^a,b  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Adult; Anthropometry; Birth weight; Foetal growth retardation; Infant; Nutrition; Obesity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENDER; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; ICELAND; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ICELAND; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 2642516989     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601881     Document Type: Article

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