Barker and colleagues: infant weight and ischaemic-heart-disease mortality

What changed

Linked archived infant weights to later ischaemic-heart mortality in traced Hertfordshire men.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact five-author 1989 Lancet paper. It is an observational historical cohort restricted to traced men and cannot by itself establish causation, mechanisms, sex generality or effects of growth-promoting intervention.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact five-author 1989 Lancet paper. It is an observational historical cohort restricted to traced men and cannot by itself establish causation, mechanisms, sex generality or effects of growth-promoting intervention.

Contributors

• David J. P. Barker · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Paul D. Winter · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Clive Osmond · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Barrie Margetts · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Steven J. Simmonds · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• PubMed record for Barker infant-weight paper
• Oxford repository copy of Barker paper

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