We hypothesized that preterm birth would be associated with high blood pressure later in life, but we did not expect the risk to be as high as it was,
We hypothesized that preterm birth would be associated with high blood pressure later in life, but we did not expect the risk to be as high as it was,
The risk associated with preterm birth is most probably not explained by familial factors,
One of the messages from this study is that children born preterm should have their blood pressure checked at follow-up visits, at least when they reach school age, because it may be important to consider other risk factors for cardiovascular disease as they are growing,
This fits in with the idea that if you have chronic inflammation someplace, you're at greater risk for negative health outcomes, in this case preterm birth,
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