Birth weight, infant weight gain, and cause-specific mortality: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Syddall, H.E., Aihie-Sayer, A., Simmonds, S.J., Osmond, C., Cox, V., Dennison, E.M., Barker, D.J.P. and Cooper, C. (2005) Birth weight, infant weight gain, and cause-specific mortality: the Hertfordshire Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 161, (11), 1074-1080. (doi:10.1093/aje/kwi137).
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Low birth weight, a marker of adverse intrauterine circumstances, is known to be associated with a range of disease outcomes in later life, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and osteoporosis. However, it may also decrease the risk of other common conditions, most notably neoplastic disease. The authors describe the associations between birth weight, infant weight gain, and a range of mortality outcomes in the Hertfordshire Cohort. This study included 37,615 men and women born in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, in 1911–1939; 7,916 had died by the end of 1999. For men, lower birth weight was associated with increased risk of mortality from circulatory disease (hazard ratio per standard deviation decrease in birth weight = 1.08, 95% confidence interval: 1.04, 1.11) and from accidental falls but with decreased risk of mortality from cancer (hazard ratio per standard deviation decrease in birth weight = 0.94, 95% confidence interval: 0.90, 0.98). For women, lower birth weight was associated with a significantly (p < 0.05) increased risk of mortality from circulatory and musculoskeletal disease, pneumonia, injury, and diabetes. Overall, a one-standard-deviation increase in birth weight reduced all-cause mortality risk by age 75 years by 0.86% for both men and women.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0002-9262 (print) |
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| Keywords: | birth weight, cohort studies, infant;,mortality,risk,weight gain |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Developmental Origins of Health and Disease |
| Item ID: | 26009 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 04:09 |
| Contributors: | Syddall, H.E. (Author) Aihie-Sayer, A. (Author) Simmonds, S.J. (Author) Osmond, C. (Author) Cox, V. (Author) Dennison, E.M. (Author) Barker, D.J.P. (Author) Cooper, C. (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/26009 |
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