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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-1
pubmed:abstractText
The inverse associations between birth weight and later adverse health outcomes and the positive associations between adult body size and poor health imply that increases in relative body size between birth and adulthood may be undesirable. In this paper, the authors describe life course path analysis, a method that can be used to jointly estimate associations between body sizes at different time points and associations of body sizes throughout life with health outcomes. Additionally, this method makes it possible to assess both the direct effect and the indirect effect mediated through later body size, and thereby the total effect, of size and changes in size on later outcomes. Using data on childhood body size and adult systolic blood pressure from a sample of 1,284 Danish men born between 1936 and 1970, the authors compared results from path analysis with results from 3 standard regression methods. Path analysis produced easily interpretable results, and compared with standard regression methods it produced a noteworthy gain in statistical power. The effect of change in relative body size on adult blood pressure was more pronounced after age 11 years than in earlier childhood. These results suggest that increases in body size prior to age 11 years are less harmful to adult blood pressure than increases occurring after this age.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1476-6256
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
169
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1167-78
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Life course path analysis of birth weight, childhood growth, and adult systolic blood pressure.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital and Center for Health and Society, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark. mga@ipm.regionh.dk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural