Primal Health Databank: Study
Entry No: | 0084 |
Title: | Weight in infancy and death from ischaemic heart disease |
Author(s): | Barker DJP, Winter P.D., et al. |
Reference: | Lancet 1989; (9th September): 577-80 |
Place of Study: | Hertfordshire, England |
Abstract: | 5,654 men born during 1911-30 were traced. Their birth weight and their weight at one year were recorded. 92.4% were breastfed. Men with the lowest weight at birth and at one year had the highest death rate from ischaemic heart disease. The relation between the weight at one year and death from ischaemic heart disease is strong, but among the bottle fed men death rates from ischaemic heart disease did not fall with increasing weight at one year. |
Keyword(s): | birth weight, coronary heart disease, infant weight, ischaemic heart disease |
Discussion: | As in many studies relating an adult condition to birth size, birth order has not been taken into consideration. Yet birth order is the best known single factor influencing birth weight. For example according to a British calculation the average difference in birth weight between first born and second born children is 138 grams. (see Odent M., Tsujino J., Studies exploring health in relation to intrauterine life should look at birth order, BMJ 1997; 314:1416) |
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