Separating in-utero and postnatal influences on later disease.
Associations of birthweight with leg length and trunk length are similar. Childhood exposures rather than in-utero programming may underlie specific associations seen between leg length and mortality.
Gunnell
D
D
Smith
G D
GD
McConnachie
A
A
Greenwood
R
R
Upton
M
M
Frankel
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S
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D001827:Body Height; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007866:Leg / Q000254:growth & development; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D011247:Pregnancy; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology