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IJE Advance Access originally published online on July 15, 2004
International Journal of Epidemiology 2004 33(6):1234-1235; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh271
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IJE vol.33 no.6 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Catch-up growth in humans—a comment on poverty, birthweight, and infant weight gain in Hertfordshire

Peter C Hindmarsh

London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

Correspondence: Professor PC Hindmarsh, Cobbold Laboratories, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1T 3AA, UK. E-mail: p.hindmarsh@ucl.ac.uk

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There is no doubting the influence of poverty on a variety of health indices particularly those associated with cardiovascular disease. Ante and immediate post-natal growth are particular stages of human growth and development that are likely to be susceptible to socio-economic factors, as each phase of growth is dependent, predominantly, on nutrient delivery.1 Marked reductions in food intake, as in the Dutch famine of 1944, do influence growth but in Western society such deprivation is unusual and the effects of more subtle reductions in nutrient intake are more difficult to discern.2 Reduced growth in utero and/or . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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