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To the Editor: It is likely that the increased insulin resistance observed in patients with rapid childhood growth in the study by Barker et al. (Oct. 27 issue)¹ is a function of increased body-mass index (BMI; the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) in the subjects as adults. It has been shown that BMI gain in late childhood and adolescence predicts adult adiposity.² The question is whether the tempo of earlier childhood gain in BMI provides an incremental predictive power with respect to coronary heart disease events beyond the subjects' current BMI and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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