Mallinson PAC, Kulkarni B, Bhogadi S, et al. - Researchers assessed whether and how parental childhood socioeconomic conditions and stature is associated with offspring’s cardiovascular risk; they hypothesised an inverse link between the two. To test this, they used an intergenerational cohort from rural India. From the third wave of the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents’ Study (2010–12), data were collected for 3175 adult offspring (aged 18–35 years, 58% men) and their parents. The results of this study did not lend support to an inverse link between parental childhood socioeconomic conditions or stature and offspring’s risk of cardiovascular disease. For this setting, intergenerational socioeconomic impacts on cardiovascular risk may be of limited public health significance.