Is infant weight associated with childhood blood pressure? Analysis of the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1227-1237

  Tilling, Kate ^a   Davies, Neil ^a   Windmeijer, Frank ^a   Kramer, Michael S ^b   Bogdanovich, Natalia ^c   Matush, Lidia ^c   Patel, Rita ^a   Smith, George Davey ^a   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^a   Martin, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c National Research and Applied Medicine   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Birthweight; Blood pressure; Lifetime; Multi level model; Path analysis; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; BREASTFEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

BELARUS;

EID: 80755169481     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr119     Document Type: Article

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