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IJE Advance Access originally published online on March 3, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(2):385-386; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi033
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Maternal diet during pregnancy and blood pressure in the offspring

Tessa Roseboom

Academic Medical Centre, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: t.j.roseboom@amc.uva.nl

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Like other living creatures, human beings are plastic during development, they are able to adapt to the environment. There is now considerable evidence that coronary heart disease originates in developmental plasticity. Almost 100 studies assessing the link between birth weight and blood pressure have been performed worldwide. Two meta analyses have shown that low birth weight is consistently linked with an increased blood pressure in later life,1 and that this association is similar for men and women.2

Birth weight has been a central feature . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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