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The diabetic pregnancy, macrosomia, and perinatal nutritional programming.
Nestle Nutrition workshop series. Paediatric programme - 1 Jan 2008
Plagemann A, Harder T, Dudenhausen J W
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Health and diseases are generally perceived to be caused genetically. It is meanwhile accepted, however, that alterations in the intrauterine and early postnatal nutritional, metabolic, and hormonal environment may also predispose to disorders and diseases throughout later life. Studies in the offspring of diabetic mothers (ODM) have decisively contributed to this perception and our understanding of causal...
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