Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 127-133 , September 2008

Weight and length at birth and their relationship to diabetes incidence and all-cause mortality—A 32-year follow-up of the population study of women in Gothenburg, Sweden

  • Leif Lapidus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Health Care, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
    • Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Primary Health Care, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Box 454, S-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Tel.: +46 313421000; fax: +46 31822152.
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  • Susan W. Andersson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Nutrition, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
    • AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden
    • ,
  • Calle Bengtsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Health Care, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
    • ,
  • Cecilia Björkelund

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Health Care, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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  • Lena Rossander-Hulthén

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Nutrition, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lauren Lissner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Health Care, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Received 29 January 2008 ,Revised 28 April 2008 ,Accepted 1 May 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2008.05.002

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 127-133 , September 2008

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