Smaller Birth Size is Associated With Narrower Retinal Arterioles in Early Adolescence

Microcirculation

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 660-668

  Gopinath, Bamini ^a,b   Baur, Louise A ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,c   Teber, Erdahl ^a   Liew, Gerald ^a   Cheung, Ning ^c   Wong, Tien Y ^c,d   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Birth weight; Children; Head circumference; Retinal fractal dimension; Retinal vascular caliber; Sydney Childhood Eye Study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; ETHNICITY; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VENULE;

ARTERIOLES; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FRACTALS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREGNANCY; RETINAL ARTERY;

EID: 78149271741     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2010.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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