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Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study
2020-05-08
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<h4>Introduction</h4> There is a robust and well-documented observational relationship between lower birthweight and higher risk of cardiometabolic disease in later life. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis posits that adverse environmental factors in utero or in the early years of life result in increased future risk of cardiometabolic disease. Our aim was to investigate whether the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c13203ae-8abf-55cd-a0b2-c1e40e7eb513
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.05.04.20091173
