Birth weight and systolic blood pressure in adolescence and adulthood: meta-regression analysis of sex- and age-specific results from 20 Nordic studies.

The authors investigated the shape, sex- and age-dependency, and possible confounding of the association between birth weight and systolic blood pressure (SBP) in 197,954 adults from 20 Nordic cohorts (birth years 1910-1987), one of which included 166,249 Swedish male conscripts. Random-effects meta...

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Main Authors: Gamborg, M, Byberg, L, Rasmussen, F, Andersen, P, Baker, J, Bengtsson, C, Canoy, D, Drøyvold, W, Eriksson, J, Forsén, T, Gunnarsdottir, I, Järvelin, MR, Koupil, I, Lapidus, L, Nilsen, T, Olsen, S, Schack-Nielsen, L, Thorsdottir, I, Tuomainen, T, Sørensen, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007