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The role of size at birth and postnatal catch-up growth in determining systolic blood pressure: a systematic review of the literature.
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Both birth weight and head circumference at birth are inversely related to systolic blood pressure, and the relationship is present in adolescence but attenuated compared to both the pre- and post-adolescence periods.Abstract:
Objective To conduct a systematic review in order to (i) summarize the relationship between birthweight and blood pressure, following numerous publications in the last 3 years, (ii) assess whether other measures of size at birth are related to blood pressure, and (iii) study the role of postnatal catch-up growth in predicting blood pressure. Data identification All papers published between March 1996 and March 2000 that examined the relationship between birth weight and systolic blood pressure were identified and combined with the papers examined in a previous review. Subjects More than 444 000 male and female subjects aged 0-84 years of all ages and races. Results Eighty studies described the relationship of blood pressure with birth weight The majority of the studies in children, adolescents and adults reported that blood pressure fell with increasing birth weight, the size of the effect being approximately 2 mmHg/kg. Head circumference was the only other birth measurement to be most consistently associated with blood pressure, the magnitude of the association being a decrease in blood pressure by approximately 0.5 mmHg/cm. Skeletal and non-skeletal postnatal catch-up growth were positively associated with blood pressure, with the highest blood pressures occurring in individuals of low birth weight but high rates of growth subsequently. Conclusions Both birth weight and head circumference at birth are inversely related to systolic blood pressure. The relationship is present in adolescence but attenuated compared to both the pre- and post-adolescence periods. Accelerated postnatal growth is also associated with raised blood pressure.read more
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Growth in utero, blood pressure in childhood and adult life, and mortality from cardiovascular disease.
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Birth Weight and Adult Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, and Obesity in US Men
Gary C. Curhan,Walter C. Willett,Eric B. Rimm,Donna Spiegelman,Alberto Ascherio,Meir J. Stampfer +5 more
TL;DR: Findings support the hypothesis that early life exposures, for which birth weight is a marker, are associated with several chronic diseases in adulthood.
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Fetal origins of adult disease—the hypothesis revisited
TL;DR: The hypothesis that adult disease has fetal origins is plausible, but much supportive evidence is flawed by incomplete and incorrect statistical interpretation.
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Is blood pressure inversely related to birth weight? The strength of evidence from a systematic review of the literature
C. M. Law,Alistair W. Shiell +1 more
TL;DR: Blood pressure is inversely related to birth weight in children and in adults and the positive results in neonates and the inconsistency in adolescence may be related to the unusual growth dynamics during these phases of growth.