Prenatal stress and developmental programming of human health and disease risk: concepts and integration of empirical findings

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The concept of the developmental origins of health and disease susceptibility is rapidly attracting interest and gaining prominence as a complementary approach to understanding the causation of many complex common disorders that confer a major burden of disease; however several important issues and questions remain to be addressed, particularly in the context of humans. RECENT FINDINGS: In this...

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