Early growth and adult health outcomes - Lessons learned from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-154

  Eriksson, Johan G ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Growth patterns; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FETUS GROWTH; FINLAND; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID METABOLISM; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 28244484381     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2005.00017.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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