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Maternal nutrition, fetal nutrition, and disease in later life
1MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
|September 18, 1997
Abstract:
Recent findings suggest that 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 and the related disorders stroke, diabetes, and hypertension.