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Birth dimensions of offspring, premature birth, and the mortality of mothers

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2000Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:The Lancet, volume 356, pages 2,066-2,067 (issn: 0140-6736,

Authors: George Davey Smith; Elise Whitley; Mika Gissler; Elina Hemminki;

doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)03406-1

pmid: 11145495

Birth dimensions of offspring, premature birth, and the mortality of mothers

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Abstract

A person's birthweight is inversely related to their cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk, and preliminary data suggest that the birthweights of offspring are also inversely related to parental CVD mortality risk. In a cohort of pregnant Finnish women, we assessed the relation between birth dimensions of the offspring and maternal characteristics, and subsequent mortality. Maternal CVD mortality was inversely related to the birthweight of offspring and women having premature deliveries were also at increased CVD risk. Breast-cancer mortality was positively associated with ponderal index of offspring.

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University of Bristol
United Kingdom

Keywords

Smoking, Infant, Newborn, Mothers, Breast Neoplasms, Body Height, Cardiovascular Diseases, Pregnancy, Birth Weight, Humans, Female, Finland, Infant, Premature, Proportional Hazards Models

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