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To the Editor: Hovi et al. (May 17 issue)¹ report that young adults who had a very low birth weight have higher indexes of glucose intolerance and higher blood pressure than do those who were born at term. Although the authors report that maternal preeclampsia occurred significantly more frequently in the very-low-birth-weight group (35 of 166) than in the term group (13 of 172, P<0.001), they did not adjust their comparisons for this variable.

In our tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in an urban area in northern Italy, from 2000 to 2006, glucose intolerance (fasting glucose level, >215 mg per . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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