Relationship between height, glucose intolerance, and hypertension in an urban African black adult population: a case for the "thrifty phenotype" hypothesis?

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An association between the factors of low birth weight and fetal growth retardation and subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease has been proposed; this is the basis of the "thrifty phenotype" hypothesis described in relation to type 2 diabetes mellitus. The relationship between height, presumably an indicator of early life experience, and glucose intolerance and hypertension was examined in a sample survey of...

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