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Birth Weight and Blood Cholesterol Level: A Study in Adolescents and Systematic Review

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between birth weight and blood total cholesterol (TC) and to compare its strength with that of the relationship between current body mass index and TC. METHODS: 1). Cross-sectional study of adolescents, with retrospective ascertainment of birth weight from birth records or parental recall; 2). systematic review of studies examining the relations between birth weight and cholesterol at all ages. PARTICIPANTS: 1). 1532 individuals (92% white, 55% male) in 10 British towns; 2). 28 studies with 32 observations showing the change in TC per 1 kg increase in birth weight-6 in infancy, 14 in adolescents, 12 in adults. RESULTS: In the cross-sectional study, there was a weak inverse relation between birth weight and TC level (-.061 …

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