Estimated birth weight and adult cardiovascular risk factors in a developing southern Chinese population: a cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Birth weight is negatively associated with cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, but the associations are less well-established in developing populations where birth weight is often unavailable. We studied the association of birth weight and cardiovascular risk, using birth rank as an instrumental variable, in Southern China.

Methods

We used published data on birth weight by birth rank from an appropriate population and baseline data from the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study phases 2 & 3 (2005-8) to examine the adjusted associations, using instrumental variable analysis, of birth weight with clinically measured cardiovascular risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in older (> or = 50 years) men (n = 5,051) and women (n = 13,907).

Results

Estimated birth weig

SUBMITTER: Schooling CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2887395 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature