birth weightBlood pressuretwins
Association between birth weight and adult blood pressure in twins: historical cohort study.
Autor(en)
Poulter NR, Chang CL
Veröffentlichungsdatum
1999
Ort der Sudie
London (UK)
Abstract
492 pairs of female twins had their blood pressure measured at age 54 years. Within pairs of twins there was an inverse correlation between birth weight and blood pressure in adulthood. The findings were similar when comparing the monozygotic and dizygotic pairs of twins.
Diskussion
This study was published in the same issue of BMJ as entry no 0281.