Birth weight and adult hypertension and obesity in women
Birth weight and adult hypertension and obesity in women
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.94.6.1310
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发表时间:
1996-09-15
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
Stampfer, MJ
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作者:
Curhan, GC;Chertow, GM;Stampfer, MJ
Background Low birth weight has been associated with an increased risk of hypertension. and high birth weight has been associated with increased adult body mass index. Published studies on adults have included only a small number of women.Methods and Results We studied 71 100 women in the Nurses' Health Study I (NHS I) who were 30 to 55 years of age in 1976 and 92 940 women in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II) who were 25 to 42 years of age in 1989. Information on birth weight, blood pressure, physician-diagnosed hypertension, and other relevant variables was collected by biennial mailed questionnaire. Ninety-five percent of the women were white. Compared with women in the middle category of birth weight (NHS I, 7.1 to 8.5 lb; NHS II, 7.0 to 8.4 lb), the age-adjusted odds ratio of hypertension in NHS I women with birth weights 29.2 kg/m(2)) versus the lowest (