Effect of birth parameters on retinal vascular caliber: The twins eye study in Tasmania

Hypertension

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 487-493

  Sun, Cong ^a   Ponsonby, Anne Louise ^a,b   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c   Brown, Shayne A ^b   Kearns, Lisa S ^a,d,e   Cochrane, Jenny ^b   MacKinnon, Jane R ^f   Ruddle, Jonathan B ^a,d   Hewitt, Alex W ^a   Liew, Gerald ^g   Dwyer, Terence ^a,b   Scurrah, Katrina ^a   Mackey, David A ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterioles; Birth length; Birth weight; Blood pressure; Epidemiology; Head circumference; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VEIN; SCHOOL CHILD; TWINS; ZYGOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOLES; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; RETINAL VESSELS; SEX FACTORS; TASMANIA; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 61749104142     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.125914     Document Type: Article

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