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Respiratory epidemiology
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Birth weight, early childhood growth and lung function in middle to early old age: 1946 British birth cohort

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  • Yutong Cai Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Seif O Shaheen Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rebecca Hardy MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Diana Kuh MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anna L Hansell Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Directorate of Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Anna Hansell, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; a.hansell{at}imperial.ac.uk
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Cai Y, Shaheen SO, Hardy R, et al
Birth weight, early childhood growth and lung function in middle to early old age: 1946 British birth cohort
Thorax 2016;71:916-922.

Publication history

  • Received October 16, 2014
  • Revised June 15, 2015
  • Accepted June 25, 2015
  • First published July 16, 2015.
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September 01, 2022

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