Exposure to a Nutrition Supplementation Intervention in Early Childhood and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Adulthood: Evidence from Guatemala

To study the role of nutrition in the association of birth size and childhood growth with development of cardiovascular disease, the authors in 2002–2004 surveyed 665 men and 790 women aged 25–42 years who had been exposed as children to a community-randomized nutrition supplementation intervention in four villages in eastern Guatemala. Exposure was associated with a lower fasting glucose level (7.0 mg/dl, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.5,...