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Modeling Pathways From the Perinatal Factors to the Vascular Risk Phenotype at the End of the Second Decade of Life: Birth Cohort, Brazil.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Aug 2020
Amaral Marconi Satuf, Ribeiro Cecilia Claudia Costa, Alves Maria Teresa Seabra de Britto E, Ribeiro Maria Jacqueline Silva, Nascimento Joelma Ximenes Prado Teixeira, Simões Vanda Maria Ferreira, Ferraro Alexandre Archanjo, Barbieri Marco Antônio, Silva Antônio Augusto Moura da
Abstract excerpt
Risk factors act around birth increasing future vascular risk. In this study, we analysed the pathways from perinatal factors to the vascular risk phenotype (VRP) in adolescents including indirect pathways mediated by obesity in adolescence. Data from a Brazilian cohort were collected at birth and at 18 to 19 years (follow-up). A theoretical model was constructed to analyze the association between variables at...
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