Low birth weight and renal disease in Australian Aborigines

Hoy W.E, Rees M

1998

Northern Territory (Australia)

The authors investigated whether low birth weight predisposes to renal disease in one community in which renal failure incidence has reached 2700 per milion and is doubling every 4 years. Among adults a high urinary albumine creatine ratio was associated with low birth weight.

One of the many studies establishing correlations between low birth weight and adult diseases.