Publications
This page will be updated with publications arising from the euro-blcs project. Publications to date include:
1. Hardy, R, Kuh, D, Langenberg, C, Wadsworth MEJ. Birth weight, childhood social class and change in adult blood pressure (submitted to The Lancet).
2. Skidmore PML, Hardy RJ, Kuh DJ, Langenberg C, Wadsworth MEJ. Birth Weight and Lipids in a National Birth Cohort Study (submitted to Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology).
3. Hardy, R, Wadsworth MEJ, Langenberg, C and Kuh, D. Birth weight, childhood growth and blood pressure at 43 years in a British birth cohort (Submitted to the International Journal of Epidemiology)
4. Jarvelin, M-R., Sovio, U., Lauren, L., Xu, B., McCarthy, M. Hartikainen, A-L., Laitinen, J., Zitting, P., Rantakallio, P., Elliott, P. Association between birth weight and blood pressure at age 31 years in the northern Finland birth cohort born in 1966 (Submitted to JAMA).
5. Kuh, D, Hardy, R, Chaturvedi, N and Wadsworth, MEJ (2002) Birth weight, childhood growth and abdominal obesity in adult life. International Journal of Obesity 26:40-47.
6. Langenberg, C, Hardy, R, Kuh, D, Brunner, E and Wadsworth, MEJ. Central and total obesity in middle aged men and women in relation to lifetime socioeconomic status: evidence from a national birth cohort (submitted to the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
7. Langenberg, C, Hardy, R, Kuh, D and Wadsworth, MEJ (2003) Influence of height, leg length and trunk length on pulse pressure, systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Journal of Hypertension 21(3):537-43
8. Laitinen J., Taponen, S., Martikainen, H., Pouta, A., Millwood, I., Hartikainen, A-L, Ruokonen, A, Sovio, U., McCarthy, M., Franks, S., and Jarvelin, M-R. Body size from birth to adulthood as a predictor of polycystic ovary syndrome symptoms. (accepted by the International Journal of Obesity)
9. Laitinen, J, Ebeling, H, Millwood, I, Jarvelin, M-R. Is the child of a young mother at increased risk of obesity in adulthood? (to be submitted)
10. Laitinen, J, Pietilainen, K, Wadsworth, M, Jarvelin, M-R. Predictors of abdominal obesity among 31-year-old men and women born in Northern Finland in 1966 (accepted by the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
11. Lauren, L. on behalf of the EURO-BLCS Study Group. A systematic review of the literature concerning size at birth and lipid levels in later life (accepted by the International Journal of Epidemiology)
12. Mishra, GD, Malik NS, Paul AA, Wadsworth MEJ, Bolton-Smith C. Childhood and adult dietary vitamin E intake and cardiovascular risk factors in mid-life in the 1946 British birth cohort. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (in press).
13. Pouta, A, Hartikainen, A-L, Sovio, U, Gissler, M., Laitinen, J, McCarthy, M.I, Ruokonen, A, Elliott, P, Järvelin, M-R. Manifestations of metabolic syndrome after hypertensive pregnancy from lifecourse perspective (submitted to New England Journal of Medicine 31-10-02).
14. Prynne CJ, Paul AA, Mishra GD, Hardy RJ, Bolton-Smith C, Wadsworth MEJ (2002) Socio-demographic inequalities in the diet of young children in the 1946 British birth cohort. Public Health Nutrition 5:733-745.
15. Rogers, I on behalf of the EURO-BLCS Study Group. The influence of birthweight and intrauterine factors on subsequent adiposity and fat distribution - a review of the literature (submitted to International Journal of Obesity)
16. Taponen, S., Martikainen, H., Järvelin, M-R., Laitinen, J., Sovio, U., Pouta, A., Hartikainen, A-L., McCarthy, M.I., Franks, S., Ruokonen, A. (2003) Hormonal profile of self-reported symptoms of Oligomennorrhea and/or Hirsutism: Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 88(1):141-7
17. Wadsworth MEJ, Hardy RJ, Paul AA, Marshall, Cole TJ. (2002) Leg and trunk length at 43 years in relation to childhood health, diet, and family circumstances; evidence from the 1946 national birth cohort. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31(2):383-390
18. Wadsworth, MEJ and Hardy, R. A first analysis of ischaemic heart disease morbidity by age 53 years in relation to childhood and adult risk factors in the 1946 birth cohort. Young@Heart: A Healthy Start for a new generation. National Heart Forum (in press).
