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Early origins of adult disease: low birth weight and vascular remodeling.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Dec 2014
Visentin Silvia, Grumolato Francesca, Nardelli Giovanni Battista, Di Camillo Barbara, Grisan Enrico, Cosmi Erich
Abstract excerpt
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes still represent the main cause of mortality and morbidity in the industrialized world. Low birth weight (LBW), caused by intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), was recently known to be associated with increased rates of CVD and non-insulin dependent diabetes in adult life (Barker's hypothesis). Well-established animal models have shown that environmentally induced IUGR...
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