First-born children have reduced insulin sensitivity and higher daytime blood pressure compared to later-born children

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1248-1253

  Ayyavoo, Ahila ^a,b   Savage, Tim ^a,b   Derraik, José G B ^a   Hofman, Paul L ^a,b   Cutfield, Wayne S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874904285     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-3531     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Morgan SP. Is low fertility a twenty-first-century demographic crisis? Demography. 2003;40:589-603. (Pubitemid 38762752)
2. Caldwell JC, Schindlmayr T. Explanations of the fertility crisis in modern societies: a search for commonalities. Pop Stud (Camb). 2003;57:241-263. (Pubitemid 37458512)
3. Morgan SP, Zhigang G, Hayford SR. China's below-replacement fertility: recent trends and future prospects. Pop Dev Rev. 2009;35: 605-629.
4. Tanner JM. Foetus into Man-Physical Growth From Conception to Maturity. Ware, United Kingdom: Castlemead; 1989.
5. Wingerd J, Schoen EJ. Factors influencing length at birth and height at five years. Pediatrics. 1974;53:737-741.
6. Wells JCK, Hallal PC, Reichert FF, Dumith SC, Menezes AM, Victora CG. Associations of birth order with early growth and adolescent height, body composition, and blood pressure: prospective birth cohort from Brazil. Am J Epidemiol. 2011;174:1028-1035.
7. Dahly DL, Adair LS. Does lower birth order amplify the association between high socioeconomic status and central adiposity in young adult Filipino males. Int J Obes. 2010;34:751-759.
8. Reynolds R, Osmond C, Phillips D, Godfrey K. Maternal BMI, parity, and pregnancy weight gain: influences on offspring adiposity in young adulthood. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2010;95:5365-5369.
9. Ghosh JR, Bandyopadhyay AR. Income, birth order, siblings, and anthropometry. Hum Biol. 2006;78:733-741. (Pubitemid 47164652)
10. Cardwell CR, Stene LC, Joner G, et al. Birth order and childhood type 1 diabetes risk: a pooled analysis of 31 observational studies. Int J Epidemiol. 2011;40:363-374.
11. Lawlor DA, Najman JM, Sterne J, Williams GM, Ebrahim S, Smith GD. Associations of parental, birth, and early life characteristics with systolic blood pressure at 5 years of age. Circulation. 2004;110:2417-2423.
12. Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Cooper C, Thornburg KL. Effect of in utero and early-life conditions on adult health and disease. N Engl J Med. 2008;359:61-73.
13. Feero WG, Guttmacher AE, McCarthy MI. Genomics, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:2339-2350.
14. Ashcroft FM, Rorsman P. Diabetes mellitus and the β cell: the last ten years. Cell. 2012;148:1160-1171.
15. Cutler JA, Sorlie PD, Wolz M, Thom T, Fields LE, Roccella EJ. Trends in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates in United States adults between 1988-1994 and 1999-2004. Hypertension. 2008;52:818-827.
16. Niklasson A, Ericson A, Fryer J, Karlberg J, Lawrence C, Karlberg P. An update of the Swedish reference standards for weight, length and head circumference at birth for given gestational age (1977-1981). Acta Paediatr. 1991;80:756-762.
17. Cutfield WS, Bergman RN, Menon RK, Sperling MA. The modified minimal model: application to measurement of insulin sensitivity in children. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1990;70:1644-1650.
18. Tanner JM, Whitehouse RH. Clinical longitudinal standards for height, weight, height velocity, weight velocity, and stages of puberty. Arch Dis Child. 1976;51:170-179.
19. Cole TJ, Freeman JV, Preece MA. Body mass index reference curves for the UK, 1990. Arch Dis Child. 1995;73:25-29.
20. Tanner J, Goldstein H, Whitehouse R. Standards for children's height at ages 2-9 years allowing for height of parents. Arch Dis Child. 1970;45:755-762.
21. Douglas NM, Dockerty JD. Survival by ethnicity for children diagnosed with cancer in New Zealand during 1990-1993. J Paediatr Child Health. 2007;43:173-177. (Pubitemid 46213682)
22. O'Brien E, Coats A, Owens P, et al. Use and interpretation of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: recommendations of the British Hypertension Society. BMJ. 2000;320:1128-1134. (Pubitemid 30213975)
23. Caprio S, Bronson M, Sherwin R, Rife F, Tamborlane W. Co-existence of severe insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia in preadolescent obese children. Diabetologia. 1996;39:1489-1497. (Pubitemid 26397355)
24. Arslanian S, Suprasongsin C. Insulin sensitivity, lipids, and body composition in childhood: is "syndrome X" present? J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1996;81:1058-1062.
25. Facchini FS, Hua N, Abbasi F, Reaven GM. Insulin resistance as a predictor of age-related diseases. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2001;86:3574-3578. (Pubitemid 32755946)
26. Steinberger J, Daniels SR. Obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk in children an American Heart Association Scientific Statement from the Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the Young Committee (Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young) and the Diabetes Committee (Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism). Circulation. 2003;107:1448-1453. (Pubitemid 36350747)
27. Whincup P, Cook D, Shaper A. Early influences on blood pressure: a study of children aged 5-7 years. BMJ. 1989;299:587-591. (Pubitemid 19214783)
28. Yong LC, Kuller LH, Rutan G, Bunker C. Longitudinal study of blood pressure: changes and determinants from adolescence to middle age. The Dormont High School follow-up study, 1957-1963 to 1989-1990. Am J Epidemiol. 1993;138:973-983. (Pubitemid 24002363)
29. Law CM, Swiet MD, Osmond C, et al. Initiation of hypertension in utero and its amplification throughout life. BMJ. 1993;306:24-27. (Pubitemid 23004943)
30. Alberti KG, Zimmet P, Shaw J. The metabolic syndrome-a new worldwide definition. Lancet. 2005;366:1059-1062. (Pubitemid 41338752)
31. Grundy SM, Brewer HB, Cleeman JI, Smith SC, Lenfant C. Definition of metabolic syndrome. Circulation. 2004;109:433-438.
32. Fall CH, Pandit AN, Law CM, et al. Size at birth and plasma insulinlike growth factor-1 concentrations. Arch Dis Child. 1995;73:287-293.
33. Prefumo F, Ganapathy R, Thilaganathan B, Sebire NJ. Influence of parity on first trimester endovascular trophoblast invasion. Fertil Steril. 2006;85:1032-1036.
34. Khong TY, Adema E, Erwich J. On an anatomical basis for the increase in birth weight in second and subsequent born children. Placenta. 2003;24:348-353. (Pubitemid 37184753)
35. Litwin S, Cortina ME, Barrientos GL, Prados MB, Roux ME, Miranda SE. Multiparity increases trophoblast invasion and vascular endothelial growth factor expression at the maternal-fetal interface in mice. J Reprod Immunol. 2010;85:161-167.
36. Gluckman PD, Hanson MA. Maternal constraint of fetal growth and its consequences. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2004:419-425.
37. Oken E, Kleinman K, Rich-Edwards J, Gillman M. A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national reference. BMC Pediatr. 2003;3:6.
38. Ong K, Petry C, Emmett P, et al. Insulin sensitivity and secretion in normal children related to size at birth, postnatal growth, and plasma insulin-like growth factor-I levels. Diabetologia. 2004;47: 1064-1070. (Pubitemid 38918166)
39. Hofman PL, Cutfield WS, Robinson EM, Bergman RN, Menon RK, Gluckman PD. Insulin resistance in short children with intrauterine growth retardation. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997;82:402-406. (Pubitemid 27068600)
40. Whincup PH, Kaye SJ, Owen CG, et al. Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes. JAMA. 2008;300:2886-2897.
41. Norris SA, Osmond C, Gigante D, et al. Size at Birth, Weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult diabetes risk in five low-or middle-income country birth cohorts. Diabetes Care. 2012;35: 72-79.
42. Hales C, Barker D, Clark P, et al. Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance at age 64. BMJ. 1991;303:1019-1022.
43. Hoet JJ, Hanson MA. Intrauterine nutrition: its importance during critical periods for cardiovascular and endocrine development. J Physiol. 1999;514:617-627. (Pubitemid 29060309)