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Predictors of adults' body mass index and the association with index child's infant birth weight, in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study of a thousand families in the Republic of Ireland.
Journal of developmental origins of health and disease - 1 Dec 2017
McKey S, Heinen M, Mehegan J, Somerville R, Khalil H, Segurado R, Murrin C, Kelleher C C
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The Lifeways study is novel in having information on three generations of the same families. It is well established that infant birth weight (IBW) predicts individuals' risk of adult chronic disease and more recently studies report cross-generation transmission of risk patterns. The aims of this analysis were to examine whether adults' birth weights were associated with measures of own health status or social...
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