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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:221-222
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

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Commentary: Early insights into height, leg length, proportionate growth and health

David Gunnell

Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.

Lifecourse epidemiology

The last ten years have seen the focus of chronic disease epidemiology shift from an almost exclusive interest in adult risk factors to a growing appreciation of the role of exposures acting at early stages of life.1,2 Leitch's review of growth and health,3 based on a lecture given over half a century ago, is a timely reminder that the scientific rationale for recent interest in the early life origins of adult health is grounded in research dating back more than a hundred years.4 But more than this it offers elegant descriptions of confounding, gene-environment interactions, a sweeping dismissal of the eugenic movement and pointers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Boyd Orr cohort

Growth and health

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