Open AccessBirthweight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857–1900 in Melbourne, Australia
Author(s) -
Ruth Morley,
Janet McCalman,
John B. Carlin
Publication year - 2006
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/dyl032
Subject(s) - cohort , coronary heart disease , medicine , cohort study , epidemiology , demography , disease , sociology
The widely observed association between birth size and risk of later coronary heart disease (CHD) has not been examined in an impoverished pre-20th century birth cohort.
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