Subtle increases in heart size persist into adulthood in growth restricted babies: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

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Clare ArnottOlli T Raitakari

Abstract

Impaired fetal growth is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in adulthood. We sought to determine whether adults born with intrauterine growth restriction have primary maladaptive changes in cardiac structure. Study participants were adults (34-49 years) who attended the 31-year follow-up of the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (longitudinal cohort). Transthoracic echocardiograms and demographic and cardiovascular risk surveys were completed for 157 adults born small for gestational age (SGA, birth weight <10th population centile) and 627 born average for gestational age (average for gestational age (AGA), birth weight 50th-90th population centile). Those born growth restricted had subtly enlarged hearts with indexed left ventricular (LV) end-systolic and end-diastolic diameters slightly greater in the SGA individuals than the AGA group (LVESD 18.7 mm/m(2) SGA vs 18.1 mm/m(2) AGA, p<0.01; LVEDD 27.5 mm/m(2) SGA vs 26.6 mm/m(2) AGA, p<0.01); LV base-to-apex length (47.4 mm/m(2) SGA vs 46.0 mm/m(2) AGA, p<0.01); LV basal diameter (26.4 mm/m(2) SGA vs 25.7 mm/m(2) AGA, p<0.01); and right ventricular base-to-apex length (40.1 mm/m(2) SGA vs 39.2 mm/m(2) AGA, p=0.02). LV stroke volume was greater...Continue Reading

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