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Wednesday 9 September, Parallel session A
Life course CVD
Lifecourse predictors of adult fibrinogen concentrations: the Newcastle Thousand Families Birth Cohort
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Objectives
To investigate the relative influences of early life and later determinants of plasma fibrinogen concentrations at age 49–51 years.
Design
Follow-up study of the Newcastle Thousand Families birth cohort established in 1947.
Participants
173 men and 221 women who attended a clinical examination between October 1996 and December 1998 and also gave blood samples.
Main Outcome Measure
Concentration of plasma fibrinogen. This was analysed, using linear regression, in relation to a range of variables at different stages of life, …