Footnotes

• MESH Terms, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Adult Children, Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced, Cardiovascular diseases, Risk Factors.

• Contributors JCT, CB, PCH and CM were involved in conception and design. JCT, LR, LD, LI, CM, CB and PCH were involved in the literature search and data abstraction, and/or quality assessment process. JCT, LR, CB, CM, LI, NWS and PCH contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the findings. JCT drafted the manuscript and all authors contributed to revisions. JCT is the guarantor.

• Funding NHS Grampian Endowment Funding.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

• Data sharing statement No additional unpublished data available (all additional materials will be made available online).