Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0659 |
| Title: | The role of size at birth and postnatal catch-up growth in determining systolic blood pressure: a systematic review of the literature |
| Author(s): | Huxley RR, Shiell AW, Law CM |
| Reference: | J Hypertens. 2000 Jul;18(7):815-31 |
| Place of Study: | UK |
| Abstract: | Eighty reviewed 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. |
| Keyword(s): | birthweight, catch-up growth, fetal growth, head circumference, intrauterine growth retardation |
| Discussion: | No discussion mentioned for this entry |
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