Born with low birth weight in rural Southern India: what are the metabolic consequences 20 years later?
Born with low birth weight in rural Southern India: what are the metabolic consequences 20 years later?
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DOI:
10.1530/eje-11-0870
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发表时间:
2012-04-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
Bygbjerg, Ib C.
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作者:
Thomas, Nihal;Grunnet, Louise G.;Bygbjerg, Ib C.
Objective: Low birth weight (LBW) is common in the Indian population and may represent an important predisposing factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the metabolic syndrome. Intensive metabolic examinations in ethnic LBW Asian Indians have been almost exclusively performed in immigrants living outside India. Therefore, we aimed to study the metabolic impact of being born with LBW in a rural non-migrant Indian population.Subjects and methods: One hundred and seventeen non-migrant, young healthy men were recruited from a birth cohort in a rural part of south India. The subjects comprised 61 LBW and 56 normal birth weight (NBW) men, with NBW men acting as controls. Subjects underwent a hyperinsulinaemic euglycaemic clamp, i.v. and oral glucose tolerance tests and a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan. The parents' anthropometric status and metabolic parameters were assessed.Results: Men with LBW were shorter (167 +/- 6.4 vs 172 +/- 6.0 cm, P