Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0101 |
| Title: | Weight in infancy and prevalence of coronary heart disease in adult life |
| Author(s): | Fall CHD, Vijayakumar M, Barker DJP, et al. |
| Reference: | BMJ 1995; 310: 17-19 |
| Place of Study: | Hertfordshire, England |
| Abstract: | A follow up study of 290 men born during 1920-30 whose birth weights and weights at 1 year were recorded. All of them were born and still living in East Hertfordshire. 42 of them had coronary heart disease. Their mean birth weight was the same as that of the other men. Their mean weight at one year (9.9kg) was 454g lower than that of the other men. This trend occurred in both smokers and non-smokers and within each social class. |
| Keyword(s): | birth weight, coronary 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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