No relation between coronary artery disease or electrocardiographic markers of disease in middle age and prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944-5

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 1653-1659

  Lumey, L H ^a   Martini, Lauren H ^a   Myerson, Merle ^a,b   Stein, Aryeh D ^c   Prineas, Ronald J ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUNGER; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; REST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE;

AGE OF ONSET; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868469216     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302419     Document Type: Article

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