Is lower birthweight truly causal for increased cardiovascular risk?
Nicole M Warrington, Geng Wang, Tom A Bond · 2024
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Nicole Warrington, Geng Wang, and Tom Bond wrote a 2024 commentary disputing a claim that low birthweight itself causes later heart disease. The claim came from a genetic study suggesting babies born lighter face higher coronary risk as adults. The trio argue the link more likely reflects shared genes that sway both traits at once.
Birthweight, they say, is a rough marker of how development went in the womb, not a lever on future health. If it were a true cause, nearly every factor that lowers birthweight would raise heart risk, which does not hold. The piece is a caution on reading cause into genetic correlations.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nicole M Warrington, Geng Wang, Tom A Bond |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |