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Early-life food rationing shows no clear association with adult blood pressure.
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SIR,-Professor D J P Barker and colleagues suggest that the prevention of hypertension may depend on improving maternal nutrition.' Food rationing introduced in Britain during 1940-1 resulted in a more equitable distribution of food, and expectant mothers received free supplements of milk, eggs, and vitamins.2 These changes were accompanied by an abrupt decline in perinatal mortality, particularly in the rate of stillbirths.' We investigated whether the blood pressure adjusted for age of British adults born during food rationing differed from that of those born before rationing was introduced.
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A 1990 study conducted a letter in Hypertension. In utero exposure to 1940-1 wartime food rationing and maternal nutrition supplements vs. Birth before food rationing was introduced was evaluated on Age-adjusted blood pressure. Birth during the 1940-1 British food rationing period was investigated for differences in age-adjusted adult blood pressure compared with birth before rationing (no quantitative results in abstract).
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