Table III.

Selected characteristics at birth and follow-up of 4518 participants in 5 birth cohorts in low- and middle-income countries

	Males (n = 2374)	Females (n = 2144)
Status at delivery, %
Preterm (<37 completed weeks)∗	12.8	11.9
Term (37-42 completed weeks)	80.1	78.0
Postterm (>42 completed weeks)	7.2	10.2
Not preterm-SGA†	26.8	22.4
Not preterm-LGA‡	2.1	2.0
Height, cm, mean ± SD	167.3 ± 7.6	155.2 ± 7.1
Weight, kg, mean ± SD§	63.9 ± 14.3	54.6 ± 12.8
BMI, mean ± SD	22.7 ± 4.2	22.6 ± 4.6
Blood pressure, mmHg, mean ± SD¶
Systolic blood pressure	116.5 ± 12.3	106.3 ± 12.2
Diastolic blood pressure	75.5 ± 10.2	70.8 ± 9.3
Prehypertension/hypertension, %	39.0	17.2
Glucose metabolism∗∗
Fasting glucose, mmol/L, mean ± SD	5.0 ± 0.8	4.9 ± 0.8
IFG/diabetes, %	8.4	5.4
Schooling††
Highest grade attained, y, mean ± SD	10.7 ± 3.7	11.4 ± 3.4
Completed secondary school, %	58.0	68.8

^∗Preterm births are not further categorized as SGA or AGA owing to limitations of sample size.

^†SGA: below the 10th percentile of sex-specific birth weight for GA.

^‡LGA: above the 90th percentile of sex-specific birth weight for GA.

^§Males, n = 2374; females, n = 2139.

^¶Males, n = 2351; females, n = 2057.

^∗∗Males, n = 2009; females, n = 1737.

^††Males, n = 2335; females, n = 2118.