Can cardiovascular risk be predicted by newborn, childhood, and adolescent body size? An examination of longitudinal data in urban African Americans

• Published in: The Journal of pediatrics Vol. 132; no. 1; pp. 90 - 97
• Main Authors: Hulman, Sonia, Kushner, Harvey, Katz, Solomon, Falkner, Bonita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Mosby, Inc 1998; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; African Americans; African Continental Ancestry Group; Atherosclerosis (general aspects, experimental research); Biological and medical sciences; Birth Weight; Blood and lymphatic vessels; Blood Glucose; Blood Pressure; Body Constitution; Body Mass Index; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - ethnology; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Growth; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Linear Models; Lipids - blood; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical sciences; Models, Statistical; Obesity; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Urban Population; PPCP; EH; BP; BMI; NIDDM; Human; Hypertension; Urban environment; Body weight; Infant; Coronary heart disease; Non insulin dependent diabetes; Retrospective; Body mass index; Adolescent; Risk factor; Arterial pressure; Birth weight; Black American; Child

Objective: Recent retrospective studies of older adults have demonstrated a correlation between lower birth weight and hypertension and insulin resistance. We tested this finding in our sample of urban African Americans with prospective data on growth and blood pressure and also tested other variabl...