Testing a Capacity-Load Model for Hypertension: Disentangling Early and Late Growth Effects on Childhood Blood Pressure in a Prospective Birth Cohort

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Grijalva Eternod, Carlos S ^a   Lawlor, Debbie A ^b   Wells, Jonathan C K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODEL; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC CAPACITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84873565726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056078     Document Type: Article

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