Birth weight and adult health in historical perspective: Evidence from a New Zealand cohort, 1907-1922

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-161

  Roberts, Evan ^a   Wood, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barker's hypothesis; Birth weight; Blood pressure; BMI; Historical; New Zealand; Stature

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DISEASE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL HISTORY; WEIGHT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RECORD; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND];

BARKER'S HYPOTHESIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BMI; HISTORICAL; NEW ZEALAND; STATURE;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896934854     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

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