%0 Journal Article
%T Beyond birth-weight: early growth and adolescent blood pressure in a Peruvian population
%A Robie Sterling
%A William Checkley
%A Robert H. Gilman
%A Lilia Cabrera
%A Charles R. Sterling
%A Caryn Bern
%A J. Jaime Miranda
%J PeerJ
%D 2015
%I 
%R 10.7717/peerj.381
%X Background. Longitudinal investigations into the origins of adult essential hypertension have found elevated blood pressure in children to accurately track into adulthood, however the direct causes of essential hypertension in adolescence and adulthood remains unclear.
%K Developmental origins
%K Lifecourse
%K Hypertension
%K Blood pressure
%K Obesity
%K Growth and development
%K Child development
%K Cohort studies
%K Peru
%U https://peerj.com/articles/381/