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Interactions of perturbations in intrauterine growth and growth during childhood on the risk of adult-onset disease.
The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society - 1 May 2000
Yajnik C
Abstract excerpt
The 'fetal origins' hypothesis (Barker, 1995) would predict that the rising epidemic of diabetes and CHD in India would be due to poor intrauterine growth of the Indian babies. While this explanation may be valid to an extent, the higher prevalence of these disorders in urban compared with rural India (where birth weights are lower) would suggest a significant role for postnatal factors. In a cohort of 477...
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