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Embryonic and fetal programming of physiological disorders in adulthood
1 Dec 2004
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In the past decade, data from numerous epidemiological studies have indicated strong inverse associations between birth weight and risk of coronary heart disease, hypertension, type 2-diabetes, and other diseases in adulthood. The "Barker hypothesis" thus postulates that a number of organ structures and functions undergo programming during embryonic and fetal life. This developmental programming determines the...
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