Lule SA, et al. - Authors evaluated the impacts of early life growth on blood pressure (BP) among Ugandan adolescents. In the developmental programming of BP, postnatal weight gain rather than birthweight (BW) was seen to be important; as seen in the findings from this large tropical birth cohort in Uganda. A life course approach should be adopted by the efforts to control BP. Effects of accelerated weight gain on adolescent BP were seen to be strongest between birth and 6 months of age among the low birthweight (LBW) (both premature and small-for-gestational-age) children.