Why evidence for the fetal origins of adult disease might be a statistical artifact: the "reversal paradox" for the relation between birth weight and blood pressure in later life.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on January 01, 2005

Authors

Yu-Kang Tu1, Robert West, George T H Ellison, Mark S Gilthorpe

Author Affiliations

1: Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9LN, UK. y.k.tu@leeds.ac.uk

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