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Birth weight and systolic blood pressure in adolescence and adulthood: meta-regression analysis of sex- and age-specific results from 20 Nordic studies.
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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-regression analyses were performed on estimates obtained from age- and sex-stratified analyses within each of the cohorts. There was an inverse association between birth weight and SBP, irrespecti...
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- Journal:
- American journal of epidemiology
- Volume:
- 166
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 634-645
- Publication date:
- 2007-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-6256
- ISSN:
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0002-9262
- Source identifiers:
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270857
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:270857
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2007
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