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Reported a geographical association in England and Wales between early twentieth-century infant mortality and later adult ischaemic-heart-disease mortality.
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The record is the exact two-author 1986 Lancet ecological study. It does not establish individual-level causation, absorb the whole developmental-origins programme or exclude later-life confounding and alternative mechanisms.
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David J. P. Barker; Clive Osmond
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Barker and Osmond: infant mortality and adult ischaemic heart disease
Reported a geographical association in England and Wales between early twentieth-century infant mortality and later adult ischaemic-heart-disease mortality.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1986 Lancet ecological study. It does not establish individual-level causation, absorb the whole developmental-origins programme or exclude later-life confounding and alternative mechanisms.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
David J. P. Barker; Clive Osmond
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.