The intergenerational effects on birth weight and its relations to maternal conditions, São Paulo, Brazil.

Background And Objectives: Parents' birth weight acts as a predictor for the descendant birth weight, with the correlation more strongly transmitted through maternal line. The present research aims to study the correlation between the child's low or increased birth weight, the mother's birth weight, and maternal conditions.

Methods: 773 mother-infant binomials were identified with information on both the baby's and the mother's birth weight recorded.

Relation between birth weight, growth, and subclinical atherosclerosis in adulthood.

Background And Objectives: Adverse conditions in the prenatal environment and in the first years of life are independently associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease. This paper aims to study the relation between birthweight, growth in the first year of life, and subclinical atherosclerosis in adults.

Methods: 88 adults aged between 20 and 31 were submitted to sociodemographic qualities, anthropometric data, blood pressure measurements, metabolic profile, and evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis.

No association between low birth weight and cardiovascular risk factors in early adulthood: evidence from São Paulo, Brazil.

Background: A growing literature suggests that low birth weight increases the risk of poor health outcomes in adulthood. We tested this hypothesis among young adults living in São Paulo State, Brazil.

Methods And Findings: To identify the effects of low birth weight on young adulthood outcomes, a medical assessment of 297 individuals born between 1977 and 1989 was conducted at a primary care unit in São Paulo State, Brazil.