Separating in-utero and postnatal influences on later disease

D Gunnell; G D Smith; A McConnachie; R Greenwood; M Upton; S Frankel

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02937-2

Separating in-utero and postnatal influences on later disease

Lancet. 1999 Oct 30;354(9189):1526-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02937-2.

Authors

D Gunnell, G D Smith, A McConnachie, R Greenwood, M Upton, S Frankel

PMID: 10551505
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02937-2

Abstract

Associations of birthweight with leg length and trunk length are similar. Childhood exposures rather than in-utero programming may underlie specific associations seen between leg length and mortality.

Publication types

Letter
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Birth Weight
Body Height
Child
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
Child, Preschool
Embryonic and Fetal Development*
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Leg / growth & development
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality*
Pregnancy
United Kingdom / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology