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Maternal obesity and developmental programming of metabolic disorders in offspring: evidence from animal models.
Experimental diabetes research - 1 Jan 2011
Li M, Sloboda D M, Vickers M H
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The incidence of obesity and overweight has reached epidemic proportions in the developed world as well as in those countries transitioning to first world economies, and this represents a major global health problem. Concern is rising over the rapid increases in childhood obesity and metabolic disease that will translate into later adult obesity. Although an obesogenic nutritional environment and increasingly...
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