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.

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