Birth weight and later life adherence to unhealthy lifestyles in predicting type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study

Objectives To prospectively assess the joint association of birth weight and established lifestyle risk factors in adulthood with incident type 2 diabetes and to quantitatively decompose the attributing effects to birth weight only, to adulthood lifestyle only, and to their interaction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Yanping, Ley, Sylvia H, Tobias, Deirdre K, Chiuve, Stephanie E, VanderWeele, Tyler J, Rich-Edwards, Janet W, Curhan, Gary C, Willett, Walter C, Manson, JoAnn E, Hu, Frank B, Qi, Lu
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510778/