Fetal nutrition and adult disease : programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI Publishing,
c2004.
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| Series: | Frontiers in nutritional science
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Table of Contents:
- Fetal programming of adult disease: an overview
- Nutritional basis for the fetal origins of adult disease
- Intrauterine hypoxaemia and cardiovascular development
- Epidemiology of the fetal origins of adult disease: Cohort studies of birthweight and cardiovascular disease
- Early-life origins of adult disease: is there really an association between birthweight and chronic disease risk?
- Experimental models of hypertension and cardiovascular disease
- Associations between fetal and infant growth and non-insulin-dependent diabetes
- Programming of diabetes: experimental models
- Birthweight and the development of overweight and obesity
- Maternal nutrition in pregnancy and adiposity in offspring
- Renal disease and fetal undernutrition
- Perinatal determinants of atopic disease
- Fetal programming of immune function
- Programming in the pre-implantation embryo
- Endocrine responses to fetal undernutrition: the Growth Hormone-Insulin-like growth factor axis
- Impact of intrauterine exposure to glucocorticoids upon fetal development and adult pathophysiology.