Associations of Birth Order with Early Adolescent Growth, Pubertal Onset, Blood Pressure and Size: Evidence from Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort

BACKGROUND: Birth order has been proposed as a cardiovascular risk factor, because the lower birth weight and greater infant weight gain typical of firstborns could programme metabolism detrimentally. METHODS: We examined the associations of birth order (firstborn or laterborn) with birth weight-for...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Kwok, Man Ki, Leung, Gabriel M., Schooling, C. Mary
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835083/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27088360
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153787
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