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Stress and glucocorticoid treatment during pregnancy, early growth and metabolic outcomes in childhood
2015-01-01
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Background: Variation in birth size has been linked to increased risk of a number of disorders later in life, including cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. However, less is known about other parameters of birth size, beyond birth weight, on later health. Moreover, the impact of the biological markers of stress, i.e. glucocorticoids, on various parameters of birth size remains understudied as well as their impa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 22608db0-02fe-5d25-9092-b3b91ef9637a
- DOI
- 10.25560/29876