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Elevated blood pressure in high-fat diet-exposed low birthweight rat offspring is most likely caused by elevated glucocorticoid levels
2020-02-24
Abstract excerpt
Being delivered as a low birthweight (LBW) infant is a risk factor for elevated blood pressure and future problems with cardiovascular and cerebellar diseases. Premature babies have been reported to possess a lower number of nephrons, but the mechanisms by which blood pressure is elevated in full-term LBW infants remain unclear. We generated a fetal low-carbohydrate and calorie-restricted model rat, and some indiv...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ad580c5c-d0bf-5095-8bf5-8a667501e4e9
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.02.21.958884
