Estimated birth weight and adult cardiovascular risk factors in a developing southern Chinese population: a cross sectional study |
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| Authors: | CM Schooling CQ Jiang TH Lam BJ Cowling SL Au Yeung WS Zhang KK Cheng GM Leung |
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| Affiliation: | (1) School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China;(2) Guangzhou Number 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, China;(3) Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
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Background 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 weight and cardiovascular risk, using birth rank as an instrumental variable, in Southern China. |
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