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A new model for the origins of chronic disease
1MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
|April 24, 2001
Abstract:
Living things are often plastic during their early development and are moulded by the environment. Many human fetuses have to adapt to a limited supply of nutrients, and in doing so they permanently change their physiology and metabolism. These programmed changes may be the origins of a number of diseases in later life, including coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension.