Low birthweight is associated with narrower arterioles in adults

Hypertension

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 933-938

  Liew, Gerald ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Duncan, Bruce B ^c   Klein, Ronald ^d   Sharrett, A Richey ^e   Brancati, Frederick ^e   Yeh, Hsin Chieh ^e   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Barker hypothesis; Birthweight; Developmental origins hypothesis; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET RESTRICTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; VENULE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; RETINA DISEASE; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 42049114695     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.101584     Document Type: Article

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