Estimated birth weight and adult cardiovascular risk factors in a developing southern Chinese population: a cross sectional study

• Main Authors: Zhang WS (Author), Au Yeung SL (Author), Cowling BJ (Author), Lam TH (Author), Jiang CQ (Author), Schooling CM (Author), Cheng KK (Author), Leung GM (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Birth weight is negatively associated with cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, but the associations are less well-established in developing populations where birth weight is often unavailable. We studied the association of birth we...