Early environmental influences on vascular development.

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The "fetal origins hypothesis" proposes that a fetus' adaptation to its intrauterine environment and postnatal stressors may have life-long consequences and that the fetal response to an environmental challenge may result in programming of different organ systems, depending on the timing of the insult. Growth restriction in the last trimester of pregnancy has been associated with later cardiovascular disease, not...

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