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Fetal origins of adult hypertension: a renal mechanism?
1 Jul 2000
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It is well-recognized that the etiology of cardiovascular disease includes at least two components: a genetic component and a 'lifestyle' or environmental component. However, epidemiological evidence accumulating over the past decade has provided an increasingly strong case for the important involvement of a third component, that of environmental conditions during development (i.e. before birth), in contributing...
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