Birth dimensions, parental mortality, and mortality in early adult age: a cohort study of Danish men born in 1953 | Zendy

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Birth dimensions, parental mortality, and mortality in early adult age: a cohort study of Danish men born in 1953

Author(s) -

AnneMarie Nybo Andersen,

Merete Osler

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyg195

Subject(s) - demography , medicine , record linkage , infant mortality , birth weight , hazard ratio , cohort , offspring , proportional hazards model , cohort study , socioeconomic status , confounding , danish , birth order , pregnancy , population , confidence interval , biology , genetics , linguistics , philosophy , sociology

Birthweight has, in several studies, been associated with mortality in adult age, even after adjustment for available socioeconomic factors. This association has been explained as a biological result of fetal undernutrition (fetal programming), by genetic predisposition, as a result of confounding by factors related to social position and lifestyle, or by a combination of these mechanisms. This study examines the relationship between birth dimensions and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in early adulthood, taking parental lifespan and social position at time of birth into account. Furthermore, the relationship between offspring birth dimensions and parental mortality is addressed.

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