Chikara Abe, Junichi Minami, Masami Ohrui, Toshihiko Ishimitsu, Hiroaki Matsuoka
There is substantial evidence that low birth weight is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease in adult life. Moreover, resting heart rate is a prognostic factor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, there are scarce data regarding the association between birth weight and resting heart rate in later life. Therefore, we investigated the association of anthropometric data at birth and hemodynamic indices including resting heart rate in Japanese boys. The data of 1,107 male students of a junior high school in Tokyo, Japan, who underwent a medical check-up in the year of admission to the school (12 or 13 years old) were used...
October 2007: Hypertension Research: Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension